Just as Shakespeare is ours, why doesn’t 'The Mahabharata' belong to the world? Narrow regional boundaries only crush the possibility of multidimensionality
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
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
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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
Rajesh Vora travelled across Punjab for five years to capture these rooftop sculptures that are icons of aspiration, often entwined with the personal histories of immigrant owners
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...
Constraints render the imagination comatose, and yet, a 150-year-old colonial diktat still stifles artists in India
Monica Arora “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best...
An exhibition on the works of masters who visited India between 1857 and 1947, and demystified the land and its people
Exploring the unique connection between Pahar & Pahari folk
As in other walks of life, it is easy to fall for clichés in art. Those who break the stereotype soar in unexpected directions
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...
Each new generation has found solace in Madan Mohan’s music and each new music director discovered lessons to be learned
Artists transform residues of waste through an alchemy of intention and imagination
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...
‘Lakshmanrekha’, about a man who revived his village’s water sources, has received two IDPA awards
National School of Drama director Chittaranjan Tripathy shares his vision for the institute and why his solo show ‘Gunno Bai’ continues to win over audiences, now in China too
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...
He felt no ownership with his work, and though his unassuming persona did not conform to the image of an iconoclast, his poems shook up an unequal social system
An all-santoor line-up is planned to mark the second death anniversary of Pt Bhajan Sopori
No official pavilion, yet Indian artists command attention with thought-provoking installations and artworks
With actors and audiences from diverse backgrounds, playwright Atamjit has been successfully staging his plays in America
While superstitions have long orchestrated the doom of rudra veena, the instrument is also unwieldy, limiting the number of its exponents