Art & Culture

First, the Cause

Rahul Bhatia

How a bold new venture hopes to shake things up in the movie financing business by focusing exclusively on social themes that can work at the box office

The Silent Artist of Nizamuddin

Avantika Bhuyan

Meet Om Pal, for whom the street outside Mirza Ghalib’s tomb is a canvas

Magical Seeing

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

A novelist traces his journey from the word to the image

‘Survival Is Another Kind of Success’

Shaikh Ayaz

Says an impish Tusshar Kapoor on the cusp of ‘surviving’ 10 years in Bollywood and the success of a film with all the right noises

The Daguerreotype’s Second Life

Janice Pariat

At a residency in Goa, a photographer is trying to revive the world’s first widely publicised process of developing photographs

Of Home and Belonging

Janice Pariat

For a while now, a clutch of Indian photographers has been grasping at the idea of ‘home’. What their gaze alights on is not even always a physical space

The Call of the Camera

Priyanka Borpujari

When Rajesh Jala made one documentary on the son of a militant and another on children who stole shrouds for a living, he didn’t expect the films to transform their lives, least of all his own

The Library of Everyday Sounds

Prerna Raturi

Welcome to auditory history in the making: a couple of Indian initiatives devoted to recording the sounds of our lives

Why Hard Kaur is Hard To Miss

Lalitha Suhasini

This rapper seems to have left all her angst behind in Birmingham. In Mumbai, it’s an entirely new musical game, what with all the Bollywood flicks and many a reality show