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
Early South Indian cinema South India’s dayS. THEODORE BASKARANA conference organised in Paris recently focussed on representations of dance and music in early Tamil and Telugu films, particularly the contribution
Tribute Rituparno Ghosh: Different and daringSuhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayOne of Rituparno Ghosh’s primary contribution is that he almost single-handedly rescued the Bengali film industry from the morass of mediocrity into w
Discovering Khirsara’s Harappan gloryExcavations in Khirsara village in western Kutch reveal a "major industrial hub" and trading centre of the mature Harappan phase.
Art Dialogues with historyK. SatchidanandanSubodh Kerkar’s installations are meditations on the colonial past, nature and history where the boundary between art and life stands disrupted.
Through my Window Premchand plusTWO works of fiction that I recently came across (I am sure there are others) have reassured me that the literary tradition of Munshi Premchand, Saada
Archaeology Drawing the locals inT.S. SUBRAMANIANThe entire village is involved in one or other aspect of the excavation, which began in 2009.
Cinema Doomed democracyASAD ZAIDIThe burden of Sanjay Kak’s film Red Ant Dream is to underline the necessity of resistance and to show that often in history the responsibility to resi
Alexei Saltykov Uncoloured by colonial prejudicesRussian Prince Alexei Saltykov’s paintings and writings on India speak of his admiration and understanding of a colonised people at a time when prejud
Amrita Sher-Gil's modernity Magyar connectionMargit KövesAmrita Sher-Gil’s modernity was shaped not only by her engagement with the Indian reality, but also by her early exposure to Hungarian literature and
Folk arts in peril Shadow playR. Ilangovan in SalemTo adapt to changing tastes or not. That is the dilemma facing Tamil Nadu’s folk theatre as television and cinema are edging it out even in its tradit
A koothu enthusiastFOR the Salem-based performing artist Mu. Harikrishnan, “koothu” (folk theatrical art) is his alter ego. An electrician by profession, Hari, 40, is th
The plural and the singularK. SATCHIDANANDANWith 184 mother tongues, 25 writing systems, and several traditions of oral and written literature, the diversity of India’s literary landscape can
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.
