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
Himalayan homeTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: BENOY K. BEHL Monks who fled from Nalanda and Vikramashila nurtured Vajrayana Buddhism in the trans-Himalayan region.
Drama of lifeS. VISWANATHANThe Chennai Kalai Kuzhu, now in its 25th year, introduced political theatre in Tamil Nadu in the form of street plays.
Vehicles of peaceTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL From stupas, Buddhist art progresses to a point where the human form is used to convey ideas that transcend mortal existence.
Inheritance of lossCHITRA PADMANABHANThe film highlights the groundswell of introspection among the Partition generation.
Reality and dreamsMAITHILI RAOTwo films that trace the lives of two children one face to face with terror and the other in the world of her dreams.
Sorrow of riversVIKHAR AHMED SAYEEDA documentary film festival in Bangalore helps create awareness about the water crises of the future.
The great questTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: BENOY K. BEHL After six years of wandering, Gautama Siddhartha attained his goal: he became a Buddha, one who had gained Bodhi.
Stories in stoneT.S. SUBRAMANIANKazhugumalai is a virtual treasure trove of Jaina art and culture dating back to the 8th century.
Culture of peaceTEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL The Upanishads, composed in the 8th or 9th century B.C., form the basis of all major faiths that originated in India.
Losers in focusMAITHILI RAOA documentary film on how market forces are appropriating natural resources that belong to everybody.
Mural villageAT Raghurajpur, every villager is now an artist. Every house is an artists studio. When Mallika Mitra, centre coordinator and senior conservator, INTA
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.