Art & Culture

That Kala Ghoda Landmark

Sumana Ramanan

How Mumbai’s iconic music store Rhythm House has survived the digital onslaught

The Eye of the Beholder

Suhit Kelkar

Dharavi housewives go behind the lens to open up their worlds

Steel in the Fabric

Chinki Sinha

For a long time, the fashion world could not understand why Gaurav Jai Gupta was weaving metal into textiles. But he feels vindicated now

Cracker Trail Gone Damp

Samina Motlekar

Anil Kapoor’s 24 is a hot show on TV that is leaving viewers cold

Bright Pants, Big Plans

Mohini Chaudhuri

Narendra Kumar Ahmed gains in influence even as he shuts down stores. His new job at Amazon India lets him focus on his designs and give techies style tips

Truth and Theatre

Trisha Gupta

Two recent exhibitions blur the distinction between portraiture and ‘performance’

A Crescendo in the Valley

Michael Snyder

Now in its second year, the Ziro Festival of Music is a platform for cultural expression and resistance in the Northeast, allowing a new generation to renegotiate its relationship with mainland India

What Bollywood Must Do

Saadat Hasan Manto

Indian filmmaking needs not just a surge of originality, it needs to rethink every aspect of the art it is failing to be

An Imperfect Egg

Shreya Ray

In today’s world of open source and Facebook, everyone curates and everything is curated. But does this mean that ‘anything goes’?

Resisting the Brush Off

Ashlesha Athavale

Incensed by the media’s indifference to Indian art, Satish Naik began publishing his own magazine, one whose articles are often seen as works of art in themselves