Art & Culture

Himalayan Leap of Love

Avantika Bhuyan

A Sino-Tibetan love story, welcomed and cherished by an Indian hill station

A Date with Picasso

Avantika Bhuyan

If you’re at the India Art Summit, this is your chance to catch some of the artist’s rare works

House of Art

Janice Pariat

Bharti Kher’s new installation is an exploration of the light-and-dark dichotomy of everyday life

Bring the Noise

Anees Saigal

Delhi wasn’t quite ready for the extravagant genius of The Prodigy. But it rose to the occasion. Literally too

Almost every big-budget movie is losing money in Bollywood. And yet, even if a small-budget movie makes thrice its cost, the industry does not count it as a blockbuster. Welcome to the warped economics of la-la-land

An Inconvenient Truth

Pramod Kumar KG

Mr Dalrymple, why is it so hard to give credit where it is due?

The North-South Mellifluence

Subhra Mazumdar

Young exponents of Carnatic and Hindustani classical music are bringing the north and south a little closer with their collaborations

The Teen Taal Spirit

Anil Budur Lulla

After centuries in the shadows, the tabla comes to the forefront with a 22-member orchestra, the first such ensemble in the world

And Roles for All

Jaideep Mazumdar

Inviting the audience to perform, a Bengal theatre group has galvanised activism in Indian villages. And engineered the scrapping of a Reliance SEZ in Maharashtra