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
A forum for the voicelessSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYA Forum Theatre festival in Kolkata provides an opportunity to the downtrodden to express themselves.
A theatre of one's ownKEWAL ARORATheatre activity can flourish only when it is nurtured through enlightened sponsorship - in terms of finance, voluntary effort, or a sensitive appreci
Secular surgeSUDHANVA DESHPANDESome recent movies produced by the Mumbai film industry project secular values, in a welcome change from the formula movies made earlier.
The colour of profitANAND PARTHASARATHYThe fresh release of Mughal-e-Azam, after 44 years, may set cash registers tinkling again and launch a new trend of digitally `colourising' classic In
Mumbai cheers up MooreDIONNE BUNSHAUNTIL recently, the only documentaries one saw on the big screen were government-sponsored Films Division shorts during which the audience would leave
Breath of hopeMUKTA RAJADHYAKSHAShwaas, a Marathi film that has been nominated as India's entry for the Oscar awards, takes the film world by storm, winning a number of State and nat
Iraq on stageSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYA Bengali play based on the American occupation of Iraq makes waves in Kolkata.
Censoring freedomPARVATHI MENON in BangaloreThe methods used to prevent a festival of documentary films in Bangalore demonstrate once again the CBFC's determination to keep films with strong pol
With a political instinctPABLO NERUDA became a trade union activist after joining the Communist Party of Chile in 1945, and is known as much for his political participation in
The people's poetVIBHA MAURYA VIJAYA VENKATARAMANRemembering Pablo Neruda, on his birth centenary, for the power of his poetry, for his struggles against fascism and oppression and for the voice that
A censorship rowSIDDHARTH NARRAINThe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting faces the ire of documentary film-makers for insisting on Censor Board certification for Indian films tha
History etched in stoneText & photographs: SUDHA MAHALINGAMThe fabled city of Persepolis, which has by and large survived the ravages of time and invasions, is a splendid specimen of Persian architecture and t
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.
