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Theatre

International Theatre Festival of Kerala puts local theatre on world stage

This year, it made a global statement of sorts on what theatre can do in troubled times.
C.S. Venkiteswaran
Interview

Mallika Sarabhai: ‘For a gender-neutral Kalamandalam’

In conversation with the renowned classical dancer and Chancellor of Kerala Kalamandalam.
Anna Mathews
Documentary

‘Commercialisation of dairy has desensitised people’: Harsha Atmakuri

Interview with the filmmaker and activist on his documentary on dairy and cruelty to cattle.
Anupama Katakam
CULTURE

In search of the Banaras of Ustad Bismillah Khan

Had he been alive, the shehnai maestro would have turned 107 on March 21.
Shreevatsa Nevatia

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Tamil estampages being digitised at the regional centre of the Archaeological Survey of India in Mysuru.

ASI Mysuru works on preserving history from inscriptions in estampages

The agency intends to soon establish a National Museum of Epigraphy in south India.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The Child that Cries: A Tamil story in translation

Translated by Ahana Lakshmi.
P. Sivakami
A decorated tram cuts through Esplanade in central Kolkata on February 24, flagging off the week-long Tram Jatra to celebrate the 150th year of the tramways in Kolkata. Trams began operating in Kolkata on February 24, 1873. At present, only three tram routes are operational and the services are irregular. Till 2017, there were more than 25 routes in the city.

Can the 150-year-old Kolkata tramway keep up with the city’s frantic pace?

Kolkata’s oldest and greenest mode of mass transit might just ramble into the sunset.
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The Progressive Artists’ Group. (First row: seated, from left) Mulk Raj Anand, Siloo Bharucha, Renu Khanna, K.H. Ara, M.F. Husain, Bal Chhabda, Unidentified, Hazarnis (with folder in hand). (Second row: seated, from left) Unidentified, Unidentified, Laxman Pai, Kathy Langhammer, E. Schlesinger. (Standing, from left) Unidentified, Kekoo Gandhy, T.A. Schinzel (behind Gandhy), Krishen Khanna (in striped tie), Sadanand Bakre (in glasses, just behind Khanna), D.G. Kulkarni (in glasses, near Bakre), V.S. Gaitonde (to Kulkarni’s left), A.A. Amelkar, Unidentified, Tyeb Mehta, Shiavax Chavda (hands folded in front), Prof. Langhammer (dark tie), Kekoo Gandhy, Manishi Dey.

Progressive Artists’ Group @75: Rebels with a cause

While this set of stormtroopers ushered in modernism, did they leave a lasting impact?
R. Siva Kumar
The restored garden house in Konnagar, West Bengal. Abanindranath spent many happy days of his childhood in this one-storey house with a sprawling garden overlooking the Hooghly river.

Abanindranath Tagore: Garden house of the homing artist restored

But the sprawling mansion where the Bengali author-artist breathed his last lies in utter neglect.
Soumitra Das
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