In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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I would like to state that references made to the works in my article, dated 15.11. 2011, on Unboxed Writers website, were misinformed and not based on facts. I, therefore, wish to unconditionally withdraw all the allegations and express that there was no intention to damage or harm the auction house’s reputation. Any prejudice caused to the […]
On November 15, I had reported on this website that a work by MF Husain sold during an Art Bull auction was alleged to be a fake. After the story was published, I received a call from Siddharth Tagore, owner of Art Bull, on November 16 clarifying that Shamshad Hussain had provided him with an […]
Kanchan Chander is known for her versatility. She has consistently, and indeed successfully, shown an impressive diversity in her art practice that ranges from large-scale paintings replete with sensuous and spiritual feminine forms to intricate miniature style mixed media works on both canvas and paper. In her latest solo show at Gallery Art Positive, titled […]
Artists have often come forward to support social causes. But when artists come forward to support fellow artists, the event has to be special. 40 leading contemporary artists from across India and South Asia have donated artworks for a unique fundraiser by and for Khoj International Artists Association that will be held this Sunday at […]
Most of us living in the city of Delhi have perhaps not even seen the Yamuna river, let alone touch it. The most abundant imagery that comes to mind when you think of the river is of junk, waste-pickers, slum dwellers along with sand dredgers and vegetable farmers. For others, it is merely a site […]
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 each other as their mentors – Rattanamol Singh Johal, Akansha Rastogi and Dr. Leon Tan. […]
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 “artists have explored the theme of devotion in a contemporary context, offering the viewers an aesthetic […]
It is said that every artist dips the brush in his or her own soul and paints the inner most self on canvas. Tejinder Kanda does the same as he digs into his recollection of a carefree childhood spent amidst green, open fields and fresh, clean air of rural Punjab. In a show titled Transmutation, […]
Ask artists how they visualize what they are going to create, and you are bound to get a variety of answers. Some make a rough sketch, some take photographs, and some others keep adding elements to their work as they go on. In short, they have a vision that slowly translates into a work of […]
I am a bonafide art writer. And yet, not being visible on the Page 3 circuit of art openings can sometimes become a huge embarrassment. As it did recently when I landed at a fancy art opening at a seven star hotel accompanied by a male friend and was asked a few unpleasant questions. “So […]
Even if you are not a connoisseur of Indian classical dance, don’t miss the five-day Ananya Dance Festival that will be held in Delhi this October. Now in its tenth edition, Ananya is one of Delhi’s most awaited cultural events that has wowed the audience year after year with its innovatively packaged presentation – an […]
Life-size canvases with strong figurative forms – whose inherent masculinity filled up the pictorial space with an overpowering sense of physicality – is what artist Shruti Gupta Chandra has been famous for. In her latest solo show titled Counter Gaze, however, she springs a surprise with a marked turn in her oeuvre. The scale of […]