CULTURE In search of the Banaras of Ustad Bismillah KhanShreevatsa NevatiaHad he been alive, the shehnai maestro would have turned 107 on March 21.
CULTURE Late start to Kochi Muziris Biennale exposes organisational fault linesNidheesh M.K.Frontline Bureau
Images of historyAjoy Ashirwad MahaprashastaRahaab Allana, curator of the “Drawn from Light” exhibition, says the photographs featured are marked by a creative tension between universal aspects
Squeezing the olives LIFE in prison has inspired or provoked writers throughout the world to think of the deeper meanings of history, freedom and punishment and to
Hobby Focus on camerasA recent exhibition in New Delhi of vintage cameras provided a window into the long history of the camera and photography.
Unmediated Prefiguring journalistic truth-telling AN 85-year-old film made at the cusp of the transition from the silent to the sound era—itself technically soundless, but then what we see exu
Voice of conscienceU.R. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014), who inhabited a bilingual world, turned a searching gaze on the community in which he was born and remained committed
Cinema Anatomy of romanceROMANCE is a key ingredient of popular Hindi cinema, but its social implications have rarely been studied. This essay looks at the motif of romance an
The power of the myth THE term “myth” is not used here exclusively or chiefly in the extended sense in which Roland Barthes uses it in his
Ellora Monolithic marvel “WHY was it not included among the seven wonders of the world?” One cannot help asking this question loudly when one stands in front of the ma
Southern connectionSCHOLARS are unanimous that the Kailasa temple at Ellora is modelled after the Kailasanatha temple in Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu and the Virupaksha te
Khashi Katha Of loss & desperationPartha ChatterjeeA new small-budget film on the underdog’s struggle for survival in Kolkata, employing a narrative technique borrowed from Thousand And One Arabian Nig
Vinod Kumar Shukla: A poet in a novelist’s shirt The PEN/Nabakov award for Shukla is an acknowledgement of a unique and extraordinary talent.
SlideshowOn the marginsCyclones have irrevocably impacted the lives of people on Bangladesh’s south-west coast.
