As creativity gives birth to new forms, chaos becomes an inevitable part of the process
As creativity gives birth to new forms, chaos becomes an inevitable part of the process
Festivals in temples, promotion of rare traditions — Sangeet Natak Akademi chairperson Sandhya Purecha says a lot is happening in the arts scenario
Debutant director Pramod Kumar Punhana’s film ‘Fouja’ has bagged three National Awards
Historian-turned-filmmaker Uma Chakravarti brings to light the life of actor Snehalatha Reddy, who spent eight months in solitary confinement
ON THIS DAY: Death of Sobha Singh (1901-1986)
With realism thoroughly explored, we need to turn to unrealism and convey epic emotions through minimal means
In Chandan Bez Baruah’s work, intricately-crafted woodcuts compel viewers to pause, ponder and delve deeper
In 2014, on a visit to Punjab for a story on global migration, I witnessed a unique scene — at a place of worship popularly known as the Airplane Gurdwara, I saw devotees offering plastic toy planes in the hope...
Shailaja Khanna A recent concert at the capital’s India International Centre by Abu Dhabi-based Bengali vocalist Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli, trained in the Patiala gharana gayaki, got one pondering about how far the gharana has travelled. Punjab was once a centre...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Athol Fugard, the South African playwright, described “censorship as hesitation”. For him, censorship was not necessarily the proximity of government inspectors or the police or the threat of imprisonment, but rather the physical hesitations of his hand...