Art & Culture

Best of 2016 Books

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From the fifth instalment of Knausgaard to a new novel by Julian Barnes, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Thomas Piketty — book your year now

Best of 2016 Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, starting 20 June, will exhibit 30 paintings from India under ‘The Royal Hunt: Courtly Pursuits in Indian Art’

Dayanita Singh: At Home in Her Meta-Museum

Somak Ghoshal

The art of turning images into a mobile sensibility

Best of 2016 Cinema

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It promises to be a bang-for-the-buck year at the movies

Sanjay Patel: An Animated Life

Manik Sharma

Pixar animator Sanjay Patel’s debut film, shortlisted for an Oscar, was born of a childhood obsession with comic superheroes and an adult acquaintance with Hindu mythology

India Enchanted

Shreya Ray

Lord Hastings’ 1814 journey from Calcutta to Punjab with painter Sita Ram is a discovery of Colonial India through lives mundane and magical

Imtiaz Ali: Auteur in Love

Divya Unny

Imtiaz Ali's new film too is a celebration of desire and longing. The filmmaker in conversation with Divya Unny

Dialectical Materials

Shreya Ray

Works by five Leftist artists show the interplay of ideas, politics and camaraderie in vivid colours

The Iffy Moments of IFFI

Charmy Harikrishnan

The film festival’s pretensions to international stature don’t square with reality. Is it time to wrest control of it from the Government?

Malavika Sarukkai: A Life in Motion

Akhila Krishnamurthy

On the eve of the famous Margazhi festival in Chennai, Bharatanatyam legend Malavika Sarukkai relives the liberating journey of three decades in which her body and soul became one