Art & Culture

The Day the Music Lived

Avantika Bhuyan

It’s time for music enthusiasts to make their annual pilgrimage. In its ninth year, Ruhaniyat, a mystic music festival, is bringing in artistes from India, Egypt, Iran and Indonesia

The Legend of Talkad

Anil Budur Lulla

They say this quaint little town by the Cauvery bears a curse upon it. Every year, tonnes of sand would blow in and bury the exquisite temples of the region. Exploring the myth behind the phenomenon

The Empire Stamps Back

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

The UK’s Royal Mail has unveiled its collection of stamps and mementos in India to the delight of Indian collectors

Though This Be Madness, There Is Method In’t

Hartosh Singh Bal

After sixteen years of work, Surjit Hans’ mission of translating all of Shakespeare into Punjabi is nigh an end.

The World in his Sights

arindam

From the North Pole to Africa, Sumantra Banerjee, camera hanging from his shoulders, goes in search of the remote and rugged.

Bisengaliev’s Symphony

Veda Aggarwal

A man from Kazakhstan is determined to mould India’s fully professional symphony orchestra into a globally acclaimed phenomenon

The Truman Show and Sundry Spinoffs

TR Vivek

Reality and reality-based shows on TV provoke the State’s deepest censorship urges, but aren’t its objections all too arbitrary?

By an uncanny coincidence, both Prabuddha Dasgupta and his former protégé Bharat Sikka focused their cameras on Goa for their latest photo exhibitions. But while Dasgupta discovers a community teetering in cultural limbo, Sikka finds a very rooted place.

Kiss, Split and Tell

Sohini Chattopadhyay

A unique museum touring the world stores memories of love relationships, post their expiry dates. A conversation with founder and curator Olinka Vištica

‘I Got Bored of My Opulence’

Rahul Bhatia

Karan Johar is tired of playing it safe. He talks to Open on what age has to do with his new approach, why he apologised to Raj Thackeray and why Bollywood is looking beyond its own gene pool.