Raghu Rai’s ‘A Thousand Lives’:a40-year journey
“At no given time am I without a camera,” asserts Raghu Rai, one of India’s most important photograp...
culture (general)
Multiple crises in my home country, Germany, and around the world have reopened debates on the signi...
Manisha Koirala claims she is a slouch on any ordinary day. “I can’t sit upright!” she chuckles. On ...
Goan village on a quilt | Savia Viegas records the stories of Carmona on denim
Quilts and memories go together — the varied scraps of fabric forming a harmonious, scrapbook-like w...
DAG Mumbai | Bengal’s babus and sundaris
Disparate in genres and united by a common geography, the newly opened exhibition on Bengal art, The...
One of my favourite James Bond sequences in recent times is the interrogation scene from Sam Mendes’...
The last custodian of bela, a lesser-known craft of block printing from Kutch
On April 30, ajrakh, the widely known craft of resist-dyeing from Kutch, got a Geographical Indicati...
Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning
1. On this day in 1884, a new attraction called the “Switchback Railway” was opened in New York’s Co...
Actor Aparna Gopinath’s new play debuts in Chennai
When Aparna Gopinath and her team of actors started working on their play Stop, Look, But Proceed, s...
Indian musicians are banking on the bedroom studio
Anoushka Maskey’s 2020 song ‘September Embers’ has all the makings of an international hit. The folk...
Gala Dalí in the company of ‘difficult’ women
In Púbol, north of Barcelona, a castle sits atop a hill. With vines sinuously wrapped around its bri...
Looking back at a friendship that spans almost four decades is no mean task but art critic, cultural...
Column | Why we must listen to podcast ‘Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)‘
Most pop culture enthusiasts are familiar with the origins of the phrase ‘15 minutes of fame’. It’s ...
Saudi Arabia and a cultural renaissance
Jazz and film festivals, fashion weeks, book fairs, art biennales and exhibitions, combined with amb...
Indonesian villagers dress corpses in ritual for the dead
A family on an Indonesian island poses with a relative dressed in a school uniform, while an elderly...
In 1951, MS Subbulakshmi made her way to Nalli Silks with a blue thread in hand, hoping to have a sa...
