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
Interview ‘The craft will die if khadi yarn is not used’Lyla BavadamInterview with Ruby Palchoudhuri, honorary general secretary, Crafts Council of West Bengal.
Culture Remains of YesterdayAJITH PILLAIPUSHPINDER SINGH. Photographs by PUSHPINDER SINGHWhen The Beatles wanted time out from a tumultous and highly successful 1967, they spent three months in Chaurasi Kutia, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashra
Photography Shades of three citiesAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTASet in the 1970s and 1980s, Pablo Bartholomew’s pictures of Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta trigger an unsettling experience of simultaneous joy and sorrow
‘These images have a great resonance across cultures’ PABLO BARTHOLOMEW has delved into his photographic collection from the 1970s and 1980s to show “how integrated we were within the internationa
Archaeology On the menhir trailThe destruction of menhirs in Vembur in the Varusha Nadu region is typical of the fate of megalithic burial sites in other parts of Tamil Nadu.
Urban invasionTHE relentless pursuit of urbanisation has ensured that a few hundred Iron Age megalithic burial sites, which included menhirs, cairn circles, stone c
Cantonment and City The ‘other’ BangalorePaul Fernandes’ cartoons capture the delightful transitional era of post-Independence Bangalore Cantonment, revelling in the afterglow of the British
Column Geographies of imagination INDIA has a vibrant publishing scene, thanks to not only the big publishers but also a lot of quality-conscious little publishing houses that
Controversy Pride & prejudiceA Dalit writer’s book about his caste group in Tamil Nadu evokes as much sharp criticism as the State government’s ban on it.
Alterbodies exhibition Body and beyondK. SatchidanandanSajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.
An artist’s journeySajitha Shankar was born at Kumaranalloor, a village in Kottayam district in Kerala, in 1967. After successfully completing a BFA degree from the Gove
Dholavira The Harappan hubT.S. SUBRAMANIAN recently in Dholavira. Photographs by D. KRISHNAN.The finds in Dholavira in Gujarat's Kutch district, unlike elsewhere, throw light on the rise and fall of the Indus civilisation in its entirety and i
A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
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.
