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Art & Culture

Simon Napier-Bell: Life Among the Stars

Simon Napier-Bell took George Michael’s Wham! to China and gave Marc Bolan his big break. The songwriter and music producer talks about his art and adventures—and Indian entanglements

Beauty and Being

Ten artists in conversation with the world

Bharti Kher: The Body Memoirist

Bharti Kher smells with her tongue to make her art

Chandraguptha Thenuwara: The End of Fear

The Sri Lankan artist who turns the darkest memories into an art of reconciliation

Senaka Senanayake: Life Is Beautiful

Often criticised as being purely aesthetic, Senaka Senanayake’s positive paintings are by no means emotionally inert

The Engineer of Human Souls

Rehaan Engineer lives by a simple diktat: whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his tongue

The Faux Stages of Man

The fourfold ashrama classification is a forced attempt to over-simplify the individual

A Passage to Unfreedom

Censorship in liberal democracies has shifted from policing the entire terrain of representation to policing boundaries

Nawazuddin Siddiqui: The Anti-Hero

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the poster boy of indie cinema, plays his most unnerving role to date

Music: Put a Label on It

Independent music companies are putting the artist first and the moolah second to get musicians and listeners a better deal

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