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
Music Dharavi rocks!A music band based in Mumbai’s Dharavi is helping its members, mostly ragpickers from the slum, nurture their talent and aspire to a better future.
Heritage Buddhist treasuresTHE culture of all of South Asia is deeply unified by a vision of great compassion, which is born out of seeing no separations between different peopl
Maha Kumbh The mother of all melasThe Kumbh Mela at Prayag, hosting the largest gathering of human beings on the planet, is as fabulous a spectacle as can be.
Maha Kumbh Immersed in faithI HAD always wanted to visit the Kumbh, not out of any religious fervour but for the sheer magnitude of the event and the photo ops it afforded. And I
Kochi-Muziris Biennale Life and artK. SATCHIDANANDANThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first such show, provides a much-needed platform for a vital inquiry into today’s art by bringing together artists
Art Amrita’s villageJ.N. SINHASaraya, a little-known village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, will always be remembered for Amrita Sher-Gil’s masterpieces. A tribute on her 1
Cinema Jingoism as historySHIVA BALAGHIArgo, despite pretending to be historically accurate, is only an action film in drag in which the Iranians are, for the most part, dangerous and anti-
Cinema Distorted visionPartha ChatterjeeThe farcical Hindi comedy Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is a terrible attempt to Indianise Bertolt Brecht.
Ethics matterVikram KapurIt was his unwavering devotion to his craft that won Yeats a place in literary immortality. As a man, however, his legacy is far less unequivocal.
In harmony with the pastPERCHED on a mound just above the point where the latest excavation project lies, overlooking the central part of Moghalmari village, stands the villa
'Significant for its stucco decorations'"The findings in the latest phase of the excavations in Moghalmari are particularly significant because here, for the first time, we find a large numb
Archaeology Unearthing a cultureSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYRecent excavations at the Moghalmari site in West Bengal’s Pashchim Medinipur district have yielded extensive evidence of an ancient Buddhist culture.
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.
