Art & Culture

They Are Not Exactly Comics

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

They are political books. Just that everything isn’t merely spelt out, it’s also sketched. And as Indian graphic novels get more and more ambitious, they’re busy re-imagining history, Ambedkar, The Emergency, Jurassic Hyderabad and a lot more.

The Tantrik Town

Avantika Bhuyan

It seems like any other little town, until practitioners of wizardry and sorcery start turning up in their benevolent avatar as magic healers.

The Truth Behind Bollywood Lies

Shradha Sukumaran

From adoption of kittens to underworld calls from Dubai, there’s an entire industry of spin doctors churning out fake news.

The Mystery of Genius

Shubhangi Swarup

Actor-director Simon McBurney explores the ‘romantic’ relationship between mathematicians GH Hardy and Srinivas Ramanujan.

Unveiling the Veil

VP Sharma

Pakistani artist Rashid Rana uses pornographic images of women to create the burkha in his critique of cultural stereotypes of women.

Death of the Political Cartoon

Hemant Morparia

Among those who killed it are cartoonists themselves

The Fraud of Vedic Maths

Hartosh Singh Bal

Those who seriously still think ancient India had devised a parallel mathematical system need to acquaint themselves with an inventive Shankaracharya called Bharti Krishna Tirthaji.

Write Like a Dancer

Tishani Doshi

How artiste Chandralekha’s refusal to separate art and life inspired my parallel careers, one drawing upon the other

Picture the Book

Jaideep Mazumdar

A catalogue of books or an art catalogue? It’s all the same when it comes to the one created by Seagull Books.

Being Adnan Sami’s Neighbour

Rahul Bhatia

The sounds began even before he moved into my next door flat. And for years they changed tune according to the state of the singer’s career and marriage. And then it all went abruptly silent.