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Art & Culture

Truth and Theatre

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

A Crescendo in the Valley

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

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

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

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

How to Make a Movie in Rs 95,000

Kenny Basumatary’s low-budget Assamese martial arts flick is being screened in theatres across India

Out of the Dabba

Acting, according to Nimrat Kaur of The Lunchbox fame, is a lie well told

Give Miley Cyrus a Break

She is just behaving like a foolish 20-year-old, which incidentally is making her a lot of money

Slightly More than the Real Deal

Academies that coach people eager to appear on a reality TV show

We Are All Lesbians

In a provocatively titled talk, Madhavi Menon argues against the assumption that sexual identities are an unchanging essence

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