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Navjot Altaf: An Iconic Journey

Rosalyn D’Mello

Navjot Altaf and a sensibility shaped by Bastar and other distant cultures

View from the Yellow River

The local and the global come together in an India-China cultural unity at the first Yinchuan Biennale

A Poetic High

Spoken-word poetry is gaining a festive momentum in India

Mise-en-Cuisine

Eating scenes in films embody conflict or cooperation between the characters, inform or assign an individual or family’s place in society

Reading Tea Leaves

If diversity and pluralism is at the core of Indian gastronomic culture, tea is the defining symbol of British identity

A Passage to Unfreedom

Censorship in liberal democracies has shifted from policing the entire terrain of representation to policing boundaries

Achyut Lahkar: The Mobile Revolutionary

Achyut Lahkar who died recently will be remembered for creating plays that smelt of Assam and which brought the magic of cinema onto the stage

The Name of the Rose

Colour, class and tradition in a vase. The meditations of a flower girl

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