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 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
Through my window Translating India IT is well known that India has a translating consciousness and we keep translating every moment of our active lives. It is difficult to come
Manna Dey Golden voice falls silentSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYConsidered one of the greatest singers in the country, Manna Dey (1919–2013) represented what is widely known as the ‘golden period’ of popular music
Cinema Eurasian imagesThe 9th Eurasia International Film Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, had a bouquet of memorable films.
Exhibition Different strokesSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYAn exhibition of Bengali screen legend Soumitra Chatterjee’s paintings reveals a new facet of his genius. But Soumitra is dismissive of the critical a
Art Search for new meaningsAmin Gulgee, in his latest exhibition of sculpture and video art, has successfully innovated with the material of the past and also made a break from
Unmediated The ehsaas and the haqeeqatWAS it necessary to hold the musical event “Ehsaas-e-Kashmir” at the Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar with the Bavarian State Orchestra conducted by the maes
Unmediated Contemplative triptychTHE ship of Theseus is as old as conundrums go, harking back to the vessel in which the mythic Greek slayer of the Minotaur sailed. The poser as it wa
Shattering of gestalt MODERNISM in Indian literature emerged under different circumstances and at different times in different languages and can hardly be historici
Photography Capturing the intangiblesLyla BavadamPhotographer Sooni Taraporevala’s exhibition “Parsis”, opening at New Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art on September 16, is a reminder that the m
Tradition The glory of jamdaniSuhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay in KalnaThe Crafts Council of West Bengal is making huge efforts to revive the traditional craft of making jamdani saris with hand-spun yarn.
The rediscovery of Ekakini, an iconic Hindi work Hindi literary circles are all agog as the first lesbian novel, from 1948, is republished.
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.