Raghu Ram, creator and host of reality show MTV Roadies, is a cult figure among Indian college students. But he says he is a shy recluse who has to live with a bodyguard
A cocktail of Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Vedic chants and Norwegian black metal was recently served in Mumbai. It was odd, yet fun
Activist Teesta Setalvad knows she has no hope of getting corporate funds for her cause. Thankfully, India’s community of artists has been supportive
She combined Indian cricket and nudity to build an improbable brand
The fate of both peasants and animals in Ramkinkar Baij’s art is a record of change in a post-industrial world
The media went to gawk at the sight of a mass wedding in a ‘village of prostitutes’. But they were the real spectacle
Why the movie matters even though it is far from groundbreaking cinema
Austrian artist Eva Schlegel portrays intangible ideas like weight and lightness with the help of concrete elements like lead and iron as well as trick materials like rotor-blade installations and mirrors
When Roy writes, ‘The youth, in preparation to an attack, marked each venue by reading from their prayer books in an act most of us are familiar with as a precursor to a holy war or fight’, he comes close to demonising a community.