Art & Culture

God’s Own Artist

Avantika Bhuyan

Known as the MF Husain of tribal art, Jivya Soma Mashe has got the Prince Claus award for his reinvention of Warli art.

“I could both do what I wanted to and annoy my parents”

Mitali Saran

Anne Enright, the Booker-winning author, is in India this month. “I want to disturb areas of the brain that don’t get a workout that often,” she says.

Myths Reawakened

Subhra Mazumdar

There’s something of a miniaturist in the fineness of detail on these large canvases by Jayasri Burman, in her biggest solo exhibition till date.

All the World’s on Our Stage

Avantika Bhuyan

The National School of Drama festival brings the best of East and West to Delhi.

Bravo! Another Curtain Call!

Avantika Bhuyan

The Ministry of Culture has announced a slew of measures to put life back into the theatres of India. But theatre and its practitioners want and need much more.

God Is Not Dead

Anil B. Lulla

Kannada cine star Vishnuvardhan’s death threw Karnataka into turmoil. Just what mob mania is at play?

The Sound of Winter

Reshil Charles

If you think Delhi is a musically dead city, tune in once again and listen to these notes blowing in with the cool winds.

‘In a Way I am Indebted to Farhan’

Sourav Majumdar

At his cosy apartment off Peddar Road in Mumbai, the director of India’s 1978 cult film Don is shaping his second innings in Hindi cinema. After a 31-year hiatus, Chandra Barot, 67, is raring to have one more shot at moviemaking.

The Instinct of Aamir Khan

Manu Joseph

How he understands his audience, how he uses his gift of curiosity, how he managed to tame the media and why he is a different man.

A Passage in Kolkata

Jaideep Mazumdar

Kolkata’s Park Street is the most iconic road in India. Bridging the gap between Warren Hastings and Buddhadeb, it is a celebration, and, alas, a tragedy.