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Art & Culture

When Talking Is High Art

British-German artist Tino Sehgal’s work ‘creates’ conversations between strangers in urban societies. Someone should tell him about Kolkata’s famous addas

An Osian of Debt

Neville Tuli on the difficulty of raising Rs 10 lakh in cash while Osian’s had Rs 1,000 crore in assets, and the bad press that he gets

Internet Diva

Namitha, the siren from Surat who reduces south Indian men to slavering wrecks

Alphabetical Disorder

An exhibition built around words, their trickery and playfulness, their horrifying power to harm and maim, and their magical ability to conjure imaginative worlds

The Curator Must Play Critic

How large and comprehensive should a retrospective be? Three current shows, on the works of KK Hebbar, Krishna Reddy and SH Raza, offer answers

The Holy Holocaust

A stage adaptation of a poem that retells a Mahabharata myth in a modern context

Eugen Sandow: Fakir of Physical Culture

An account of the strongman’s visit to India in 1904, excerpted from David Waller’s forthcoming book The Perfect Man

A Useless Quest for Deeper Meaning

A gorgeous photographic exhibition tries to commit suicide

‘I really don’t know why things happened in this story’

If you are confused about Rockstar’s plot, then Imtiaz Ali is the wrong man to ask

From Russia with Bolly Love

An Indian theme party in St Petersburg reveals just how well India’s soft power is working in these parts

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