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Sarika Sharma While growing up in a village near Mehrauli and studying under a tree at school, Ompal Sansanwal didn’t realise when nature became a part of him. That jungle, the birds and animals, and the trees were all to...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry If you cannot bear these stories, then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked? I don’t even try to cover it, because it is not my...

Monica Arora KG Subramanyan was born in rural Kerala in pre-Partition India in 1924. A student of economics, he was an active participant in the Independence movement and that resulted in his expulsion from college and even imprisonment. No...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.  — Michel Foucault  Many years ago, my theatre group was invited to perform ‘Yerma’, by Federico Garcia Lorca,...

Shireen Quadri AS a conscientious artist-draftsman, Gobardhan Ash (1907-1996) was deeply affected by the suffering of people around him. In his works, he would invariably portray poverty, hunger and deprivation. An early Modernist, he responded to the zeitgeist in his...

Shakti S Chandel “When you look at these paintings… you seem to catch the spirit of those great mountains which have towered over the Indian plain and been our sentinels for ages past. They remind us of so much in...

Sarika Sharma “Tonhada kaam, kaam, ahaanda kaam, ridakna?” (Your work is work, and our work is worthless?) “Ladka kadhai kyun nahi kar sakta?” (Why can’t a boy embroider?) Gendered queries such as these form the heart of the exhibition...

Vinayak Chakravorty Sidharth Malhotra makes his business clear in ‘Yodha’ with the punchline: “Main rahoon ya na rahoon, desh hamesha rahega (I may or may not exist, but my nation will exist forever).” The assertion comes when an archetypal...

Amitabha Bhattacharya Shortly after my graduation, deeply immersed in the Film Society Movement, I watched ‘Garm Hava’ (‘Scorching Winds’) and remember vividly the impression it left on me. Satyajit Ray wrote a longish letter to a noted Bengali weekly in...

Shailaja Khanna TWO artistes from Punjab have been honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards for 2022 and 2023, in the field of North Indian classical music, and unexpectedly so. I write unexpectedly because despite undivided Punjab being the centre...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry THE image of female impersonators never ceases to fascinate, whether they appear in theatre, films, classical or folk performances. Is the female impersonator a sexual subaltern? Or an artiste expressing himself outside conventional templates? The annals of...

Rajnish Wattas I SAW my first Impressionist painting in original nearly two decades ago. I can never forget the brilliance of its bold colours, in thick slabs of contrasting hues, to capture the ever-changing effects of light with the brush....

Chandigarh, March 15 Eminent city residents have taken up the recommendations made by distinguished art historian Dr BN Goswamy, who passed away on November 17 last year, with Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Banwarilal Purohit for rejuvenation of museum, art,...

Raghav Guleria Dharamsala, March 12 Decorated with several awards such as the Kalidas Sammaan and the Himachal Excellency Award, Dhani Ram, a resident of village Dhugiari in Kangra district, has risen to become one of the most sought-after artists...

Malvika Kaul Gulammohammed Sheikh is 87 and warns that he “rambles a lot”. His art meanders, beautifully traversing eras. The canvases appear to move in different directions, presenting multiple narratives in a single moment. They look like elegant Google...

Shireen Quadri  Italian artist Tarshito N Stippoli believes in the fluidity of borders. In his universe, the world is one big family, bound together by the timeless threads of love, creativity, and connection. This ethos underpins his cross-cultural artistic...

Nonika Singh 540 films and still counting, 40 years in Bollywood and still going strong. That is the indefatigable and irrepressible Anupam Kher, Padma Bhushan recipient and two-time National Award-winner, who abhors titles like living legend, thespian and veteran. “These...

Renu Sud Sinha SHE remains a small-town girl at heart and her stories are steeped in sensibilities born out of her roots. A former journalist, translator, author, documentary maker and now a scriptwriter, Anu Singh Choudhry was born in a...

Shailaja Khanna CURATED by renowned art expert Gayatri Sinha, ‘Kali — Reverence and Rebellion’ is a stunning exhibition, expansive in its range. Covering art on the goddess across 300 years from the 18th century to the 20th, it is not...

Monica Arora ‘A small village, around the corner, up in a mountain’, a solo exhibition by prolific artist Subodh Gupta, is the debut show of Nature Morte’s Mumbai gallery, situated in the historic Dhanraj Mahal at Apollo Bandar in the...

Saibal Chatterjee Writer-director Raam Reddy’s second film, ‘The Fable’, starring Manoj Bajpayee, is among 15 titles in the competitive Encounters section of the upcoming 74th Berlin Film Festival (February 15 to 25). ‘Shambhala’ is Nepal’s first film at the fest....

Malvika Kaul The film begins with Pandit Nityanand Haldipur (renowned flautist) opening the door of legendary classical musician Annapurna Devi’s Mumbai home. Well known as a recluse, Annapurna may have given fewer than three interviews in her 91 years. Only...

Sarika Sharma Kiran Nadar, chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, has been honoured with the Padma Shri this year. She began collecting art in the 1980s, opening a museum in a mall first and...

Monica Arora Delhi-based artist Gogi Saroj Pal passed away on January 27, leaving behind a rich legacy of her artworks. Proficient at working with mediums as diverse as installation, painting, gouache, oil, sculpture, graphic printing, ceramics, jewellery, weaving and photography,...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry In the year 1997, I was in London, working on a production. Wherever I went or whoever I met was talking about a play called ‘Oraculos’, performed by artistes from Colombia. ‘Oraculos’ was a totally unexpected experience...