culture

Waswo X Waswo and R Vijay: The Miniaturists

Annapurna Garimella

The American photographer Waswo X Waswo and Rajasthani artist R Vijay have created acclaimed miniature paintings that bend genres and are as exquisite as they are contemporary

Ebrahim Alkazi: The Idealist

Somak Ghoshal

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

Film Festival: Mise En City

Trisha Gupta

A vibrant new film festival portrays the multiplicity of claims on Indian cities, the freedoms they enable and the burdens that still weigh them down

Dancing by the Yamuna

Divya Unny

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the art of oversized soft power

Home Alone

Bibek Debroy

There is more to Rajiv Malhotra’s latest book on Sanskrit than the usual Pollock pickle

Is Mall the New Mandir?

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

A meditation on Black Friday

A Legacy of the Gods

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Our cavalier attitude to truth imperils institutions

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