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
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
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...