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Art & Culture

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

You Can’t Please All

A recent storm raised in a teacup points to contemporary India’s uneasy relationship with a culture of reviewing

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