If the Thackerays don't save a Marathi school in their backyard, who will, wonders Syed Firdaus Ashraf. Kindly note that this image has only been posted for representational purposes. Photograph: ...

In the middle-class Marathi household of Bhushan Korgaonkar, Lavani as a dance form was often looked down upon, considered bawdy and obscene. Korgaonkar felt ashamed that the state of Maharashtra, ...

The Indian portable harmonium is a close cousin of the larger foot-pumped organs once found in European churches and homes. It’s a wooden box roughly the size of a small suitcase. You sit on the floor ...

When CBS Records offered influential Québécois rock group Harmonium $1-million to re-record its songs in English, most of the band was in favour of the prospect. But chief songwriter and lead singer ...

As Maharashtra continues to reel under a fierce debate over linguistic identity, an old video of Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray has resurfaced online, drawing renewed attention. In the clip, ...

Thane: Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kolshet region in Thane will now provide Marathi language classes after receiving continuous advocacy by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). Historically, the school ...

Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has voiced strong opposition to the Maharashtra government's move to introduce Hindi from Class 1 in Marathi and English medium schools. His remarks come just days ...

Serge Fiori was a Montreal-born singer, guitarist and songwriter best known as the frontman and co-founder of Harmonium, one of Quebec’s most influential folk-rock bands of the 1970s. (Karine ...

Serge Fiori, the founding frontman of legendary Quebec folk rock band Harmonium, has died. He was 73. The news was shared in a statement from Serge Grimaux, Fiori's manager of 36 years, who said the ...

To ensure the MNS did not hijack the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Marathi agenda, the 44-year-old announced he would launch a free Marathi-speaking course to help non-Marathi speakers who recently moved to ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has written a letter to the state government demanding that only two languages - Marathi and English - be taught from Class 1 in schools affiliated ...

Nagpur: The deadline for implementing Marathi as a mandatory subject from Classes 1 to 10 concluded with the 2024–25 academic session, leaving many CBSE schools in a bind. While recent headlines ...