culture

YG Srimati: The Radical Classicist

Somak Ghoshal

YG Srimati broke boundaries while remaining rooted to the ancient traditions of the subcontinent

How Tsarist Russia’s intellectuals embraced Indian culture

Yoga, Sanskrit and Dharmic belief systems found their way to pre-communist Russia and were adopted by some of the foremost members of the country’s intelligentsia

Japan: Basho As Guide

Nandini Nair

Tripping in Japan with its authors

Black Lives Matter

Somak Ghoshal

Diving into European art history to resurrect a vital and ignored cast of characters

Living Myths

Aditya Mani Jha

An internationally acclaimed short film tells the Santhals’ story

Framing the Fable

Somak Ghoshal

This study on the evolution of photography in the subcontinent strikes a fine balance between the medium’s formal and aesthetic aspirations

The Flow of Time

Akshat Khandelwal

Rivers that run through the cultural history of India

Dev Patel: ‘I feel I have a responsibility to bridge the two cultures that are in my DNA’

Noel de Souza

Noel de Souza in conversation with Dev Patel

The Big Picture

Nandini Nair

Coffee-table books that showcase the arts, crafts and cultural histories of India

The Foreigner’s Home

Toni Morrison

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely?