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Sarika Sharma IN a grainy video dated 1939, a man on harmonium is exhorting a gathering of men to give up alcohol and lauding the Congress’ movement for prohibition all through a qawwali. Created by Dada Chandekar, ‘Bhari hai aag...

Sumit Paul Mutrib se kaho iss andaaz se gaayeHar dil ko lage chot-si, har aankh bhar aaye(Please ask the singer to sing in a manner that can bring tears to eyes and impact every heart) THE legendary Urdu poet Raghupati...

Right perception, Right knowledge, and Right behaviourThat is the path to LiberationTattvarthasutra, Jain text of 1st/2nd century CE …the exhibition does not intend to define what exactly Jainism is in terms of essentialisation, but rather tries to explore how and...

Sarika Sharma AT Kartik Sood’s Shimla house, the emphasis was always on aesthetics. His photographer father would tell him how to keep things, how to compose a photograph, what colours don’t work together… As a kid, Kartik was very receptive...

Shailaja Khanna In the classical music tradition in both North and South India, primary importance is given to spontaneous creativity. The outline and grammar of a raga exists, but it is expanded and embellished by the musician. There is a...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry These days one is terrified of opening the newspaper or social media sites as one is constantly confronted by the passing away of colleagues, friends and loved ones. Besides making one aware of one’s own mortality, it...

Amitabha Bhattacharya Both Mrinal Sen (1923-2018) and Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) had their productive period when Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was lighting up cinema, churning out one masterpiece after another. Though they are often discussed together, there was not much in common...

From Dutch to the English, everyone had their eyes on Indian textiles from 17th century onwards. What made these so exotic?

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Amritsar, May 4 The commuters at newly constructed flyover in Islamabad have now a reason to slow down and capture the illuminating art installation depicting the Gurmukhi alphabets that has been attracting attention for the past three days. The...

Benaulim (Goa), May 4 Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in Goa on Thursday to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in the first such high-level visit to India from the neighbouring country since 2011. Bhutto...

Krishnaraj Iyengar HIS fingers flawlessly glide on the Carnatic veena as he renders soulful ragas. Each note is steeped in Bhakti rasa. With equal dexterity, he renders speedy taans on the Hindustani sarangi. Deepak Paramashivan is an artiste who has...

Sarika Sharma WHEN he was a student of sculpture at Chandigarh’s Government College of Arts, Gurpreet Dhuri would say, ‘I don’t dream big.’ Now that he is one of India’s most sought-after prosthetic artists, he still says, ‘I don’t dream...

Sumit Paul Shailendra sahir-e-alfaaz aur musavvir-e-jazbaat thay.(Shailendra was a wizard of words and a painter of feelings/emotions)— Khwaja Ahmad Abbas in Urdu daily Inquilab DECADES ago, Pt Bharat Vyas opined that “Hindi film jagat ki aatma uske sangeet mein basti...

The extraordinary story of how a sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall ended up in Philadelphia Museum of Art

Chandigarh, April 9 The 56th annual exhibition of the Government College of Art, Sector 10, began today. Nearly 1,000 artworks by around 330 young and budding artists have been displayed at the exhibition. It was inaugurated by Secretary Technical Education...

Rajnish Wattas With Pablo Picasso’s 50th death anniversary falling on April 8, the world over museums and art galleries have planned major events to mark the legend’s colossal impact on 20th century art. Picasso, whose name is synonymous with the...

Mandala, lit. ‘circle’, is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation...

Neha Saini A celebration of mystics, poets and their timeless verse weaved together in the backdrop of Amritsar’s heritage, ‘The Sacred Amritsar’ has brought to the holy city some of the biggest and most celebrated names in the Indian classical...

Renu Sud Sinha HE was just 11 when he saw Madhuri Dixit in ‘Devdas’ dancing on ‘Kaahe Chhed Chhed Mohe’ and that decided his life’s aim. Pursuing that dream has not been easy. “If you follow a different passion, everyone...

Sarika Sharma IN Chandigarh, 12 years ago, Shabana Azmi was competing against herself in Girish Karnad’s play ‘Broken Images’. Her solo performance featured a conversation with a 45-minute previously shot video. A marvel of human precision indeed, but one where...

Bindu Menon IN 1963, when Jyoti Bhatt appeared before a selection panel for his Fulbright scholarship, a jury member commented that his linocut print of a cat and its kitten was a copy of artist Pablo Picasso. Bhatt asserted that...

Of the thousands who visit the landmark every day, very few have an idea about the hard time it ran into at the time of inception

Shimla, March 17 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu on Friday presented his government’s first budget. As the Chief Minister has already spoken about taking tough decisions, it is believed that he is likely to take steps in the...

Shailaja Khanna Heritage is an intangible experience, a combination of tradition and memory. To be made alive, it needs to be nurtured, celebrated and also made a part of one’s everyday life. When third-generation Patialavi Ravee Ahluwalia realised that...