Art & Culture

Bowler, Dancer, Tattoo-lover, Singer

Shahina KK

Sreesanth After many a memorable gig off stage, cricketer Sreesanth is making his musical debut on stage with the band S-36

The Ustad at 102

A Basu

Abdul Rashid Khan is feted as the oldest performing Hindustani classical musician. On a typical day, he does his namaaz five times, teaches, eats one meal and smokes a hookah

Where You Can See Tagore’s Passbook

Prerna Raturi

The State Bank museum in Kolkata also boasts Rajendra Prasad’s current account application and the box that stored Gandhi’s ashes

The Singing Nun

Avantika Bhuyan

Ani Choying Drolma joined a monastery to escape her father’s beatings and found a voice that has now got Warner Brothers lining up

The Strange Silence of Mahesh Bhatt

Shaikh Ayaz

One of the things we missed most after Radiagate was him announcing a film called Phone Call. Precious words on his recent reticence

A Cartographer among Photographers

Janice Pariat

Alain Paiement uses a technique called mapping to put together hundreds of shots that offer an artistic aerial view of life

The Photographer of Dhobi Ghat

Madhavankutty Pillai

When Jyotika Jain was signed on for the movie, she had hundreds of photos of female train commuters but no clue what film photography meant

Women Who Rock

Isha Singh Sawhney

Growling, rasping and purring, here is the vanguard of female indie music, rocking stage after stage with performances like none other

The Candid Killer of Camera Shyness

A Basu

Kolkata filmmaker Q’s movies are unlike anything seen in India. His latest, Gandu, is shot in digital SLR and features explicit sex scenes with risque rap lyrics