Adhiraj Singh Bisht The origin of the word ‘Naati’, a traditional folk performance of the western Himalayas, is lost in time. However, many speculate that it is a corruption of the word ‘Naach’ (dance). Historian OC Handa describes it in...
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Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Many years ago, I saw the rehearsal of a traditional performance where the shishya stood in front of the guru and copied each gesture, each expression and each footwork of the guru, almost akin to a mirror...
R Umamaheshwari Simultaneous conversations and multiple dialogues run across generations, it seems, at the Ivy Lodge in Kasauli. Be it in the paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil or the art of her nephew, Vivan Sundaram, signifying political expressions with objects, sound...
Brijeshwar Singh Every aspiring singer still wants to sing his songs. Contemporary music directors from Pritam to MM Kreem to AR Rahman study his moody melodies. Shreya Ghoshal says that if a singer wants to learn when to be loud...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Charles Baudelaire, a French poet and philosopher, wrote: “Here we have a man whose job it is to collect the day’s refuse in the capital. Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost,...
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Sreevalsan Thiyyadi The pine trees at Mussoorie reminded young CV Chandrasekhar of the hill-slopes in Shimla where he grew up as a child. The lanky artiste had just reached the Himalayan range, travelling 2,500 km from Madras. The metropolis was...
Renu Sud Sinha Veteran documentary makers Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena picked up yet another award recently for their latest project, ‘Lakshmanrekha’, that tells the story of a school dropout who revived his village’s water sources in the deserts...
Malvika Kaul It’s been almost six months since Chittaranjan Tripathy became director of the National School of Drama (NSD). An ex-student of India’s premier theatre training institute, Tripathy continues to have mixed feelings about his role as the NSD...
R Umamaheshwari Hostel nights in our times in JNU, Delhi, were incomplete without the quintessential radio. And Akashvani was incomplete without at least one number by this singer. There was something about the lilt in Talat Mahmood’s voice: it wafted...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry When a griot (storyteller) dies, a library burns down — African proverb No, this is not an obituary, nor will I refer to Surjit Patar in the past tense. I find it difficult to wrap my head...
Krishnaraj Iyengar Abhay Rustum Sopori has vivid memories of accompanying his father, Pt Bhajan Sopori, to pray at a Shankaracharya temple atop a hill and then at a Sufi dargah at its foothill during his childhood days in Srinagar....
Shireen Quadri India doesn’t have an official pavilion at the ongoing Venice Biennale this year, but art from the country is making a splash across various sections. Of these, sculptor Sonal Ambani’s installation, ‘Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune’,...
Nonika Singh Where Punjabis go, Punjab follows. Only, in the case of eminent playwright and theatreperson Atamjit, make it Punjabi rangmanch. Thus, when in 2022, this prolific writer, with 36 plays to his credit, made Chicago his second home,...
Shailaja Khanna One of India’s oldest extant string instruments, the rudra veena (been, as it is colloquially called) has been in a state of decline for the last 100 years. Today, very few practitioners remain. When the last great beenkaar...
Siddharth Pandey Whenever the epithet ‘Dev Bhoomi’ is used with reference to the religious landscape of Himachal Pradesh, it is usually a select list of temples that readily comes to mind. The official website of the Himachal Pradesh government, for...
Monica Arora Sreemoyee Singh’s ‘And, Towards Happy Alleys’ is a gem of cinematic brilliance, a symphony on Iranian poets, filmmakers and, most importantly, women. Here are women who go on living with grace and dignity, refusing to be quietened, despite...
Krishnaraj Iyengar There is no India without Sindh, says filmmaker Susheel Gajwani, reminding us how the words ‘India’ and ‘Hindustan’ originate from ‘Indus’ or ‘Sindhu’. His fierce passion has finally found form. After having directed several Hindi and Marathi movies,...
Sarika Sharma Manjit Bawa’s first-ever painting sold for Rs 50. Over the last one year, his artworks have been auctioned for as high as Rs 25 crore, making and breaking records. Bawa, born in the small town of Dhuri in...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) had an aura of ephemerality around her. She loved the sea, the sand, the wind, the sun, the light, the shadows, the trees, the flora… Her drawings and canvases were not biomorphic; rather, her...
Malvika Kaul Anarkali Shyam, Champi Bai Shyam, Rajesh Shyam, Santosh Maravi and Sanjay Pancheshwar live in the remote village of Patangarh, and in villages spread in the Mandla forests of Madhya Pradesh. Along with several others, they create the ‘Gond...
Sarika Sharma Gauhar Jaan, celebrated as colonial India’s most renowned ‘tawaif’, had a mastery over several styles and languages, including French and English. This versatility and range have always inspired Sharmistha Chatterjee, the Bengali singer who recently wowed her...
Monica Arora It isn’t just another art show. Hosted by New Delhi-based Latitude 28 art gallery, ‘Come With Your Own Light’ is a curation of artist Komal Mistri’s unique experimentation of spending time in delivery rooms and maternity wards...
Shailaja Khanna An unusual, first-of-its-kind jugalbandi involved sarodist Amaan Ali Bangash and vocalist Kaushiki Chakraborty. Despite belonging to totally different musical lineages, they recently performed together in Kolkata. The duo’s apparent personal chemistry translated into an ease on stage,...
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...
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