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Amit Dutta’s latest film, ‘Phool Ka Chhand’ (‘Rhythm of a Flower’), which premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival recently and won the Golden Gateway Award, the event’s top accolade, is a full feature-length hand-drawn animated film on the life...

There is something pleasurable about discovering the ancient, and finding connections. I love ferreting out old stories and drinking in the ancient well of knowledge. The story that has held me in thrall is about the nature of ‘time’. A...

Photographer Sayali Goyal travels through rural India and captures the unnoticed

There is more to the quick-witted art collector than meets the eye

Thota Vaikuntam’s Delhi show is a reflection on his five-decade journey and the connection with his Telangana roots

Food is often used as the main ingredient in plays, engaging the audience in multi-sensory ways

The Department of Language has announced 10 best literary book awards for the year 2023 related to various categories. As many as 144 books in different categories, including Punjabi novels, poetry books and drama were shortlisted for the awards and...

Satinder Kaur, collections manager at Dumfries House is offering visitors an authentic 18th-century dining experience in historic home's Pink Dining Room

Muzaffar Ali’s art and aesthetics are a lesson in history, culture and philosophy. A Sufi at heart, his creations reflect his fine taste, not just as an artist, filmmaker, sculptor, poet, designer and illustrator, but most importantly, as an equine...

It had just been a month or so since their wedding when Kailash Kaur suddenly found herself on stage, acting in her husband’s play at Nangal. An engineer at the Bhakra-Nangal dam site, Gursharan Singh had formed a drama company...

Classical music, as we know it today in North India, would not have existed without the patronage of the princely states. Musicians attached to the court were given salaries and allowed to pursue the arts without the fear of the...

Lavish backdrops, melodramatic flourishes, high-pitched singing, complex tableaux and opulent floats — it combined European techniques with local contours to create a theatre form that became India’s first commercial venture

An exhibition to mark 20th anniversary of Gallery Akar Prakar puts the spotlight on the trailblazers

Ladakh-raised Maisam Ali takes his debut film ‘In Retreat’ to the prestigious Busan International Film Festival

Bickram Ghosh brings Shubha Mudgal, Aruna Sairam and Usha Uthup on one stage, and it’s magic

Once in a while comes a show that transports viewers from the real world to the sublime and works as a time machine. ‘OP Sharma & the Fine Art of Photography (1950s-1990s)’, presented by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts...

From Alkazi experimenting with the Japanese Kabuki form in ‘Andha Yug’ to Karanth employing Karnataka’s Yakshagana style in his adaptation of ‘Macbeth’, traditional forms have resonated with the contemporary

On his birth centenary, remembering the quiet genius of Shimla-born abstractionist Ram Kumar

A community art exhibition delves into what the tribal region could, but should not, look like

75-year career, 50,000 songs in 14 languages — statistics, however, cannot define the greatness of Lata Mangeshkar, whose 95th birth anniversary falls this week

‘The Imam’ is the story of a little girl whose desire to become a cleric, like her father, ruffles a lot of patriarchal feathers

Just as Shakespeare is ours, why doesn’t 'The Mahabharata' belong to the world? Narrow regional boundaries only crush the possibility of multidimensionality

A fabulous combination of aesthetic expression and visual anthropology, ‘The Nagas: An Exhibition of Photographs by Pablo Bartholomew and Aditya Arya’ offers a deep and personal look at the 30-odd tribes that are known as the Nagas. Charged with diverse...

A haveli can be a continuum of heritage, a receptacle of experiences, memories and stories passed down generations. In Indian-American artist Joya Mukerjee Logue’s 30 oil and watercolour paintings — a part of ‘those who walk before me’, her first...

The new gallery at the National Crafts Museum tells the story of Indian fabrics through 150 vibrant pieces