India@75 1973: Janam is formedTEAM FRONTLINESafdar Hashmi’s killing drew nationwide attention to Janam and its protest theatre.
An eye for the appropriateJAGAN SHAHThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Barefoot Architects is a recognition for a group that paused to notice the solutions that already existed
The ignoble politics of Naipaul's NobelGITHA HARIHARANHow a writer's vision, and his worldview, are inseparable from the writing itself.
Beyond the exoticSUNEET CHOPRAAn exhibition in New Delhi, 'The living religions and cultural traditions of Bhutan', unfolds the past of the Bhutanese people and shows what the futu
A journey in JapanSUNEET CHOPRAThe Yokohama Triennale helps the viewer understand the role of the artist as the restorer of lost humanity and the overtly political nature of this pr
Feet of clayS. VISWANATHANA Tamil play staged by a theatre group in Chennai exposes the inherent social biases of and caste oppression by epic heroes.
The half life of paintingHANS V. MATHEWSGrasping these as works of art seems to require a very different set of reflexes than viewers of paintings have hitherto had.
Of awards and rewardsSHOHINI GHOSHViewed in the context of a general atmosphere of cultural policing prevailing in the country, the developments relating to the 48th National Film Awar
Museums of cultural dispossession?A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTThe two new projects in Paris for museum development may well be a saga of dispossession of the cultural heritage of micro-civilisations.
A fusionist and a traditionalistASHA KRISHNAKUMARDr. L. Subramaniam, a multi-faceted violinist, undertakes pioneering efforts to achieve the integration of various music systems while still relying o
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
