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Somak Ghoshal

Somak Ghoshal is an editor and writer based in Bengaluru

Works by McCurry displayed at a news kiosk in Paris
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Steve McCurry: Altered Reality for Art’s Sake

The photographer Steve McCurry is on trial for digital manipulation. He is in good company

19 May 2016
Avinash Chandra (COURTESY: DAG MODERN)
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Avinash Chandra: The Disappearing Artist

Avinash Chandra’s work is riveting, often for its shocking amorality

20 April 2016
E. Alkazi in the titular role of Tartuffe in Moliere’s Tartuffe, Theatre Unit, Bombay, 1960
Books
Ebrahim Alkazi: The Idealist

Ebrahim Alkazi’s lifelong project was to burst the seemingly exclusive bubble in which the appreciation of art and theatre appeared to take place

06 April 2016
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Art & Culture
The Mark of A Modernist

Although Nasreen Mohamedi lost most of her motor functions, she did manage to retain control over her right hand. Her last work remains ethereal, meticulous but also filled with palpable gravitas

16 March 2016
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Art & Culture
Master of the Moment

Satish Gujral’s work casts a spell on viewers with its transformative power. While he infuses humanity and warmth into the images of his subjects, his self-portraits are more brutal, depicting a range of emotions by deft modulation of tones and textures

17 February 2016
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World
India Art Fair 2016: Less Is More

Indian artists may not have set hearts aflutter but those from Pakistan and Nepal added spice to the local flavours

03 February 2016
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Undoing the Ordinary

The carefully postured bodies in the paintings of Francisco Goya, or the ones reduced to an abstraction in the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, transform into bizarre entities in a fascinating exhibition that examines notions of health and healing in India

27 January 2016
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Art & Culture
Dayanita Singh: At Home in Her Meta-Museum

The art of turning images into a mobile sensibility

17 December 2015
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Between the Poetic And the Visual

Arpita Singh’s work, irrespective of its theme and ambition, is touched by a deeply personal, almost mystical, truth. Broken phrases and stray words are strewn all over her images, to set up the context to which these may be anchored

25 November 2015
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Art & Culture
The Naked Truth

What lies beneath the sensuous eloquence of Prabuddha Dasgupta

30 September 2015

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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