Art & Culture

Two Lives, Two Realities

Avantika Bhuyan

Time and space, and inner and outer worlds, come together in Rahab Allana’s diptychs.

Kashmir and the Artist

Sohini Chattopadhyay

At the start of yet another fierce, heartless summer in Delhi, comes the enigmatically titled exhibition, Snow, on Kashmir.

In Public Interest

Avantika Bhuyan

An intriguing art project by Khoj Studios facilitates conversations between the city and its teeming millions.

We Know What You’ll Do This Summer

Manjula Negi

The movies releasing this season may lack big star power. But they are still reason enough for you to be spending long hours in cinema halls.

The Atlas of Painting

Subhra Mazumdar

Artist Paresh Maity documents his travels on canvas, capturing sights and sounds beyond the seeing eye.

Kitsch Comeback

Avantika Bhuyan

Miniaturists, Madhubani and billboard painters and graphic designers come together to critique urban Indian life in this arts project.

As a masterpiece of poetry, it remains unparalleled. As a signifier of a civilisation’s ethical and spiritual heritage, it is unsurpassed. What makes it so unique is that it is ‘alive’ in many senses of the word.

An Arrested Adolescence

Hartosh Singh Bal

There’s an entire generation of post-liberalisation readers who can’t seem to get enough of Chetan Bhagat’s fiction. Be puzzled, be very puzzled.

Renaissance Woman

Shradha Sukumaran

Actor, director, social activist... Aparna Sen’s seventh film as director, The Japanese Wife, releases next Friday. She speaks on her new film and how her frustration with mainstream cinema led her to make her own movies.