Arts

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry LET us imagine an invisible line drawn across the length of a rehearsal space. Two groups, unknown to each other, tentatively walk towards each other. Watchful, unsure and hesitant. A verbal language that is unfamiliar to both...

Monica Arora The vibrant tapestry of artist Jatin Das’ creations comes alive at a retrospective of his works being held at the sprawling National Gallery of Modern Art, nestled amidst the verdant surroundings of Lutyens’ Delhi. An encapsulation of his...

Krishnaraj Iyengar For millions in India and across the globe, the strains of the santoor have offered solace, especially when its long-haired maverick with his striking personality meditatively caressed its hundred strings. The late Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma’s legacy lives...

Nonika Singh Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a substitute for human intelligence; it is a tool to amplify human creativity and ingenuity,” says American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li. Recently, a deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna went viral But is...

Amritsar, November 21 Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war painting Guernica, about a town in northern Spain that was bombed by Nazis, is acclaimed for its creative commentary on the horrors of war. Art, as they say, need not always be...

It happens ever so often, but I am still not able to get over my shock whenever someone who I regard as possessed of some learning — not merely literate — or has even a faint trace of interest in...

This is a book of little essays among which there is no order; no logical sequence; no given theme connects the pieces; they also appear dated perhaps. Why, then, one might legitimately ask, would anyone be interested in reading them?...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry How does one write about a remarkable scholar and mentor in the past tense while simultaneously trying to process the grief of losing him to the unknown terrains of eternity? Making my emotions an entangled web of...

Amritsar, November 17 A three-day solo painting and sculpture exhibition of artist Dr Kusum Lala Sharma was inaugurated at the art gallery by Indian Academy of Fine Arts (IAFA) members Arvinder Chamak and others here on Friday. The exhibition was...

Lalit Mohan Dharamsala, November 17 Kangra art conservationists and lovers in the district have condoled the death of Dr BN Goswamy in Chandigarh today at the age of 90. It’s Dr BN Goswamy, who is given credit for his work...

Shailaja Khanna India is the only country in the world which has two distinct systems of classical music — one from the North, also termed Hindustani, and the other from the South, called Carnatic. In fact, in the Indian context,...

When asked what were the main values I took back from the Kasauli camps, I would answer that there were two: ego-less collaboration and intense exchange of ideas.— Nalini Malani Before I start to reconstruct and annotate the timeline of...

Chandigarh, November 6 As many as 2,000 students from government and non-government schools across the tri-city took part in an on-the-spot painting competition organised by the North Zone Cultural Centre (NZCC), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, to mark...

Manisha Gangahar Throw a random word, and he would promptly pick and rap… It is curt, intrepid, subtle in wit, persuasive and, of course, carries a beat. “I have been an underground artist, sans limelight, and I never film...

R Umamaheshwari Here in the futureis the same war…each moment of our bodiesbecomes an instrument of death…There are two kinds of terror hereThe terror of annihilationAnd the terror of remembering…which will we find more painful, more seductive? — Canadian...

Neha Saini Amritsar, October 30 In an attempt to open the doors to the glorious past and history of Amritsar, Itihaas, a city-based organisation in association with Timeless Amritsar and Rang Punjab has put up an exhibition, ‘Reflections of the...

Nonika Singh The story that is not on camera determines the story that is on camera, says acclaimed filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur as she talks about the challenges of documentary filmmaking. Her latest documentary, ‘Against the Tide’, that won the special...

Krishnaraj Iyengar It would be truly fascinating for Punjabis to learn that a classical music tradition of the state is upheld solely in West Bengal. It is almost as though a dialect of the Punjabi language is spoken by Bengalis...

Behind these innocent and attractive little compositions is a whole world of satire, innuendo, double-speak and the like

Sarika Sharma DHARAMSHALA International Film Festival (DIFF) returns with a new edition and a line-up of documentary films that is at once stellar, moving and inspiring. Among others, it would showcase ‘I Am Sirat’, a collaboration between Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa...

Shailaja Khanna MIAN TANSEN created his own version of Raga Kanhra and that came to be known as Darbari, as it was rendered in the darbar (court) of Emperor Akbar. Called the emperor of ragas, as also the raga of...

Sreevalsan Thiyyadi SIX decades have passed since Parveen Sultana sang Raga Yaman to brief her prospective guru, who was testing the potential of the 10-year-old girl keen to learn Hindustani classical. Even today, at 73, the acclaimed musician cannot but...

Jalandhar, October 17 In a celebration of artistic collaboration and cultural exchange, 21 foreign and Indian artists have converged at DAV University to showcase ‘ArtEco’, an International Socio-cultural Art Project. The six-day endeavour, comprising workshops and an exhibition, will conclude...

R Umamaheshwari When they weren’t busy ruling over (and oppressing) us, some of them in the British colonial edifice indulged in theatre, if only to amuse themselves. “Anglo-Indian society, especially in northern India, is to a great extent dependent upon...

“The dharma of release, where calm prevails, And the dharma of kings, where force prevails, How far apart they are.” — Ashvaghosha A long time ago — it might have been some 40 years — Peter Brook, that legendary director,...