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
Voices from the shadowsGOWRI RAMNARAYAN"THEATRE in Turmoil", a seminar masterminded by eminent theatre director Richard Schechner and theatre scholar Samik Bandyopadhyay, was part of Bharat
Rediscovering a Gandhi filmT.S. SUBRAMANIANAn abridged version of a long-lost documentary on Mahatma Gandhi, with the commentary in English, is traced in the United States. But the original Tam
Brainwashed from the cradleSARAH HIDDLESTONZubin Mehta's iconic status and renowned programme met with rapturous approval in Chennai and New Delhi.
Keezhavenmani revisitedS. VISWANATHANThe Keezhavenmani massacre of December 25, 1968, by landlords and their henchmen, which was all but ignored by the mainstream press, is poignantly bro
A month of musicGOWRI RAMNARAYANThis time the Madras Music Festival offered great variety in music and dance. For the first time it had a large orchestra playing classical Western mu
Bihar and BollywoodMAITHILI RAOA bunch of recent films explore the socio-political reality of Bihar, a State by and large ignored by mainstream Hindi cinema.
A rebellious TurkSHELLEY WALIATurkish writer Orhan Pamuk holds a mirror up to the state against its atrocities while he advocates holding on to values that are dear to his country
Victims' strugglesMAITHILI RAOThe latest offerings from film-makers Girish Kasaravalli and Rituparno Ghosh are out. Their many differences apart, both films tell the story of the f
Preserving inscriptions digitallyPARVATHI MENONTHE Epigraphia Carnatica is a rich repository of source material on the history of the Old Mysore region. Compiled and edited in 12 volumes between 18
A professor in his labyrinthMAITHILI RAOJahnu Barua's Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara is a brave attempt at confronting the uncomfortable issue of mental illness in the aged.
`A constant process of discovery'Interview with Adoor Gopalakrishnan, winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
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.
