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Art & Culture
The village that refused to be a good story
The media went to gawk at the sight of a mass wedding in a ‘village of prostitutes’. But they were the real spectacle
Get the (Dirty) Picture
Why the movie matters even though it is far from groundbreaking cinema
The Construction of Weightlessness
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
“Terms like ‘holy war’ should not be tossed around”
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.
“Seniormost maulana threatened jihad at Jaipur”
Jaipur Literature Festival’s producer Sanjoy K Roy takes exception to a piece we ran on the litfest and Salman Rushdie affair
Caught in the Act
A dispassionate history of sex and the powerful mythologies that have surrounded it down the ages
How They Do It in Venezuela
As Miss India auditions begin, it is a good time to ask why this little South American country wins so many world titles
Study of an Archive Photographer
Pablo Bartholomew seeks to recover a forgotten way of seeing by revisiting his work on Bombay done 25 years ago
Goons as Critics
Another ‘provocative’ art show, another right-wing attack. And the themes that draw their ire only seem to widen every year
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