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
In focus, the human beingTHE camera has taken Pablo Bartholomew places—from the fringes of society to colossal tragedies such as the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, and to accolades
Photography A city held by timeAjoy Ashirwad MahaprashastaPablo Bartholomew’s photographs in the recent exhibition in New Delhi, The Calcutta Diaries, create an imagination of a city living its history and it
Literature ‘Socialist realism is still relevant’S. Dorairaj ALMOST four decades have rolled by since Zvelebil, the renowned Czech Tamil scholar, made this assessment of writer Daniel Selvaraj’s contribu
Megalithic wonderVikhar Ahmed SayeedHirebenakal in Karnataka is a large and diverse Megalithic site that can offer insights into our past. Although the ASI has sought World Heritage stat
Megalithic wonderVIKHAR AHMED SAYEEDHirebenakal in Karnataka is a large and diverse Megalithic site that can offer insights into our past. Although the ASI has sought World Heritage stat
Echoes of eternityThe Buddhist temples of Japan are the finest embodiments of the Indian philosophic view that moments of perception of beauty are akin to nirvana, when
Buddhist LegacyTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BENOY K. BEHLEarly Buddhism was founded on the Buddhas sublime message of love and self-discipline. This philosophic vision of life found representation in mighty
Restoring a monumentThe ASI is restoring the Ta Prohm Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia, which attracts hundreds of tourists every day.
Breaking freeOsians Cinefan 2012 was an ode to excellence, with the narratives paying homage to the perennial outsider.
The Asian otherKEN WALIBORA WALIAULAEast African literature has elected not only to celebrate but condone the cultural cross-pollination by its unflattering depiction of Asians.
Nautanki againRANA SIDDIQUI ZAMANAtul Yaduvanshi and his repertory company have been trying to revive the traditional folk theatre form in parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Blood and lustPARTHA CHATTERJEEGangs of Wasseypur typifies the commercial cinema in which paranoia passes for intensity.
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.
