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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For someone who graduated as a communications engineer and then followed it up with a management degree from FMS, Delhi, a career in the corporate world would be a natural choice. But not for Ravi Agarwal who, despite being “an academic achiever”, chucked it all to pursue photography. It was an engagement he had discovered […]
If you are wondering what could be common between fashion designer Malini Ramani, adman Swapan Seth, film actor Sushma Seth, model Kamal Sidhu and the always-in-news Sabrina Lall – well, they are all subjects of a new body of work, which photographer Bonny Hazuria likes to call “painted photographs”. A fashion photographer whose entry into […]
Celebrated artist Brinda Miller’s work is like a glow-in-the-dark, iridescent thought. Not just any thought but one that is an universe unto itself. With layers of other thoughts. Each one textured uniquely. Each one speaking to us. Some thoughts merge softly together in sprays of mist. Others stand out like elements of Nature. In her […]
Celebrated for his stark depiction of urban life – especially Mumbai’s violence-ridden streets and working class anguish– veteran artist Sudhir Patwardhan now turns his gaze homewards creating playful and poignant domestic scenes within the four walls of a house in an exhibition titled ‘Family Fiction’ in New Delhi. A practicing radiologist till 2005, the artist’s reflections on […]
In a sublimely detailed work called Doll House, artist Abir Kar blurs the line between reality and fantasy as we see what must possibly be a little girl’s room full of stuffed toys, a pink laptop, pubescent clutter, a wall ornament that says ‘Drama Queen,’ and a heart-holding teddy bear in a cage. Is this […]
Artist CF John is not given to flourishes. He does not need them because in his work, you see the distillation of all of life. Not its impulses. Raw gashes. Or its over stated drama. What you see is balance. Stillness. Life evenly poised between the tangible and the invisible. Swathes of peace. Introspective protagonists revelling in rich inner […]
I met Vivek Mathew years ago at his first photography show and he has progressively delved deeper and deeper in the core of his passion for images, for light and shadows, for the ripple of textures, for the music of silence and photographed the most unlikely of objects and themes with startling perspective and insight. It is easy […]
As you enter the time-weathered building of Triveni Kala Sangam in the heart of Delhi – its top floor also home to veteran artist Rameshwar Broota for nearly four decades – nothing prepares you to confront the monumental photographs that hang outside his office room. Step into his office, and more of these intricately textured […]
Cynics often dismiss the taste for fine arts as an elitist pursuit, but the one event that seemed to be a great equaliser was the India Art Summit that took place in the capital in January. Right from the parking lot – where an S-class Mercedes could be seen jostling for space with the humble […]