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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The number of visitors thronging the venue at NSIC Grounds in Delhi only seemed to have grown. But though it was the third and the penultimate day of the fair, there emerged a mixed response from both Indian and international galleries about the business they had generated, most being cautious about responding to enquiries […]
When Pooja Sood, director, Khoj, claimed a week ago that Khojlive – an evening of performance art – would be the most exciting collateral event during India Art Fair, even she would not have anticipated the crowd that turned out at blue FROG last evening. In fact, the venue organisers had to close the […]
First the 21 minute walk from where the car drops you till you are inside the display area, and then the information pamphlet that holds a list of 98 exhibitors and 13 public art projects spread over 12,000 sq m of area and just one single day to absorb all that the India Art Fair brings […]
With a new name, a new venue and new international partners, India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) is only growing bigger and better with each year. For its fourth edition slated from January 26-29, the fair is being held at a new location at NSIC exhibition grounds in New Delhi which has been […]
Living in the cities, news of disappearing farmlands and increasing numbers of farmers’ suicides is just another media story for most of us. But when a creative artist chooses to bring the harsh truth right at our doorstep, there is no way one can look the other way. New York based Kiran Chandra, diminutive in […]
The slight tilt of a cream coloured hat, a pair of spectacles perched precariously on the tip of her petite nose and a smile that can win over even the biggest cynic – Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, filmmaker and peace activist, is every inch a performer. Being a Beatles widow (she was married to John […]
From soft watercolours to pencil drawings, from the sensuous figurative portraits of Tagore’s Charulata to metaphorical abstracts, from a tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci to the memories of Old Bengal school masters, Sudip Roy has captured it all. Titled Time Past is Present, this is an expansive show of over 70 odd works – on view […]
2011 made us bid goodbye unwillingly and sorrowfully to… (Tribute: http://unboxedwriters.com/2011/12/satyadev-dubey-the-resilient-cactus/) Satyadev Dubey who wrote film dialogues like he was unaware of all the cliches and conventions that do not let cinematic characters breathe. And produced and directed theatre with a fierce passion that sought and demanded nothing but absolute attention and commitment from those […]
Polka dotted joie-de vivre, Black-and-white… soundless laughter, Curly wrist hair, droopy lids..bulbous eyes, Miss Nimbupani, Miss Fonseca, Mr Bundaldass, Hatch lines, Horizontal, vertical, slanting, busy lines, Church spires, Cloudy beer in a yellow mug, Flowered umbrellas, Bendy palms, Orange moons, Still lakes, Bobbing boats, Sloping roofs, Wide eyed cats, Movement in stillness, Stillness in movement, […]
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 […]
So the palette knife has grown still. The furiously alive colours have been distilled into a meditative stillness. The chattering energy has found its centre. The need to react to stimuli has been replaced by the need to witness the ebb and flow of life and to observe the sunlight trickling from a web of leaves to meld into a […]