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Art & Culture

Improbable Physics

Artist Dimpy Menon’s smooth, muscled sculptures seem to defy the laws of physics, but that is precisely why they are so disarming.

The Art Commune

Between the recession and the deep blue sea takes place the RPG Art camp, the oldest of its kind in India

Question of Reconciliation

Australian and Indian artists, baffled by attacks on Indians down under, explore how the two countries treat each other and their minorities

Radio Resurgence

The director of the British Museum managed to draw 18 million people away from their tellies, enticing them back to the radio. Here’s how

Fringe Benefits

The CEO of the largest fringe festival in the world on the fun of performing spontaneously, unbridled by definition, unworried by structure

The Japanese Horror Movie Experience

The Indian Art Summit was every bit as creepy and disturbing as those yuurei films

The Crossdressing Raja and Rani of Jhansi

An extract from Mrinal Pandey’s translation of 1857: The Real Story of the Great Uprising by Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar. It is the only eyewitness account by an Indian of Rani Lakshmi Bai’s revolt

‘My Name is Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan’

The actor traces his roots in conversation with Open

The Kingdom of Khan

They have ruled Bollywood for as long as you can possibly remember. Plain coincidence?

The ‘Ban’ on Javed Akhtar

Is there one? What kind of ban is it? And how do you enforce one anyway? The legal/ethical lines seem blurry

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