The dreaded day will arrive shortly and I will become 60. How and when did this happen?? “It is only a number,” people say. Well, I used to say it too. But it’s a number with a 6 in it. ...Read More
Encouraging young curators to think out of the box is nothing new for Khoj, and this time it was gone a step ahead by presenting three exhibitions by emerging curators at the same time. The shows are as diverse from ...Read More
The Gods would have taken one giant stride to reach Dunagiri from Almora, I took the road less travelled. A road that unravelled through fields governed by the Kumaon Mothers of the Earth, all of whom are busily engaged in ...Read More
This is certainly been the month of feasts and festivals, prayers and fasting. And so when an invite titled Devotion-Invocation, lands at your doorstep, you are bound to be slightly amused. The curatorial note, by Sushma Bahl, says that ...Read More
Today
He will look across the wall
at the other
the shadow
that was once a person
They don't talk much
Not at all infact
And exist only in disjointed halves
that don't fit
They know each other
but see just the wall
and hear footsteps
arriving and leaving
They hear voices
songs, laughter
But ...Read More
"Don't shoot..don't shoot," so he said before being shot in a drain where he was hiding after 42 years of unleashing violence against dissidents. Muammar Gaddafi lived and died by the gun like many dictators before him. But then evil ...Read More
So is India a bag of clichés? A tired gag about scams? A joke poking fun at regional accents? An anecdote about food poisoning? A 12 page essay about the failure that democracy has turned out to be? A Facebook ...Read More
Having been exposed to the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, the biography of Ramakrishna (a mystic and the spiritual master of Vivekananda) and Bimal Roy’s movies, my heart yearned to experience this land called West Bengal. I reached Kolkata in early ...Read More
Memory 1
It’s summer time in Lansdowne. The hydrangeas are in full blue bloom. The bumble bees are bumbling along. There’s a nice warm sun smiling outside the house. Inside, temperatures are close to freezing. My 18-year-old long haired, long ...Read More
Shyam Benegal's cinema never loses the plot in trying to project itself as a breakaway, alternate idea. His films never preen and say, "Let me show you something you have never seen before," even though his cinema in the 70s was ...Read More
The youth outrun change, helm break-throughs, smash through walls and create new realities. Imagine a world united rather than divided? A world animated by young citizens of the world rather than cluttered by jaded mouthpieces?
Model United Nations (MUN) is one ...Read More
As he, almost silently, glided into the living room, it was as if the curtains had lifted and the show had begun.
Cinemar manush (the man from the films) was how I would refer to him whenever I saw a picture ...Read More
