Art & Culture

Raider of a Costly Art

Shashank Kumar

The creator of Lara Croft, Ian Livingstone, on the tomb raider’s new avatar, and why it costs upto $50 million to create a single video game nowadays

Jamming with a Marley

Bhairavi Jhaveri

Reggae legend Bob Marley’s son, Rohan, who was in India this week to launch House of Marley audio products, on living and loving like his father

Tyranny of the Casting Director

Aastha Atray Banan

It is true. And sometimes they do not even bother to couch their demands in dignified terms

Nothingness in a Dress

Chinki Sinha

As a live installation at an art show against gender violence, Chinki Sinha finds herself discomfited by the male gaze

Art in the Time of Eternal Uncertainty

Shaikh Ayaz

Lahore-based artist Ali Kazim, whose paintings were showcased in Mumbai recently, talks about nudity, freedom of expression and why interest in Pakistani art is on the ascent

Rudeness Pays

Aastha Atray Banan

How anyone can make a career in television just by being a jerk

The Thought Police in Jaipur

Sanjoy Roy

And why the LitFest needs liberal middle-class support

An Abduction That Changed Assamese Literature

Aruni Kashyap

Writer Indira Goswami made a significant literary contribution to Assam’s peace process. It was through her efforts that writing by militants, initially shunned by the people, gained a central place in the Assamese imagination

Naga Sadhus on Hire

Dhirendra K Jha

As akharas find it harder and harder to get new recruits, they are paying people to pose as Naga ascetics and swell their numbers for the duration of the Kumbh

Bijoy Jain’s ‘Path of Least Resistance’

Lhendup G Bhutia

A boutique under a cricket stadium, a resort in the middle of a dense coconut plantation, a Bombay highrise built to embrace the rains, there is very little that this Alibaug-based architect is not trying