Culture How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of communityJanhavi AcharekarThe 2022 edition included different forms of art and disciplines not usually categorised as art.
CULTURE Late start to Kochi Muziris Biennale exposes organisational fault linesNidheesh M.K.Frontline Bureau
Photo Essay Langur Mela in Amritsar sees hundreds of children visit Bada Hanuman templeRaminder Pal Singh
Through my Window No end to hopeDOES poetry make anything happen? W.H. Auden had once answered: no. And added: it is a way of happening, a mouth: today he would have qualified his st
Cinema The ‘unknown’ factorInternationally acclaimed film director and eminent Bengali poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta in an exclusive conversation with Frontline, talks of his film Anw
Buddhist wonders Monumental effortTHE painted ceilings of the Buddhist caves at Ajanta have not drawn as much international attention as the murals. A reason could be that the painting
Interview Celebrating diversityR. IlangovanYaadhum, a documentary tracing the roots of Tamil Muslims, evocatively portrays a syncretic tradition that allowed inclusiveness and peaceful coexiste
Ajanta Wonders of AjantaIT is a virtual tour of the Ajanta caves that Professor S. Swaminathan takes one through in his 60-minute lecture at the Madras Christian College, Tam
Sri Lanka Surveillance and survivalSIVAMOHAN SUMATHYIn post-war Sri Lanka, Sinhala cinema is all about triumphal cultural nationalism. What options does a Tamil film-maker have, faced with the twin thre
Essay The poets and the feministRAFIA ZAKARIAJanuary 4, 2014, marks 47 years since Atiya Fyzee Rahamin's death and her bequest to the Karachi municipal corporation, and 137 years since her birth;
Requiem for filmWE have known for some years now that the days of film as film are numbered, that movies are being increasingly produced and delivered in the digital
Archaeology Settlement of historySuhrid Sankar Chattopadhyayphotographs by shiharan nandiTHE recent discovery of ancient artefacts deep in the heart of the Sunderbans in West Bengal indicates that the region had human habitation as early a
Cinema Dungan the directorA documentary on the American film-maker Ellis R. Dungan, who made memorable films such as “Meera” and “Manthirikumari”and raised Tamil films from the
Through my window Bombay meri jaan BOMBAY, which once Octavio Paz saw as a city “animated by vice and money”, filling him with “dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, ent
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
