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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*** Winter evenings might be getting colder in Delhi now, but the festival circuit is surely hotting up. With a string of art and culture festivals lined up this season, where else would one want to be but in the capital city? From next Friday till Sunday, all roads will lead to the majestic […]
Khoj, a Delhi-based multi-disciplinary cultural NGO, is celebrating its 10 years in Khirkee Extension, and doing it in style. No, there is no fancy cocktail opening here; it’s the residents of Khirkee who will get a chance to double up as artists, musicians, actors and cooks in the three-day festival titled Khoj Dus Tak […]
It’s so rare that you are allowed to touch a work of art that to be invited to walk all over it can be both intimidating and intriguing. On Tuesday evening, visitors who walked into Latitude 28, stepping over dozens of rubber prints, looked as bewildered as they would have been if asked to explain […]
Editor’s note: This Eid we are very happy to introduce to you, our first contributor from Pakistan. Here is to threads that bind us together inextricably through art, music, cinema and a shared humanity. This piece is reproduced here courtesy NuktaArt, Pakistan’s contemporary art magazine.www.nuktaartmag.com. In the Western dialectic of art, dislocation denotes alienation and disjuncture […]
It is perhaps the first novel about the intriguing world of art by an insider, one who knows the artists and the art market. Published by Hachette India, Artist, Undone is the debut novel by V. Sanjay Kumar – a Chennai based art collector and one of the directors of Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai – who […]
River as a witness. River as a companion. River as a traveller. River as a habitat. As a purveyor of food. Waste. Faith. Goods. Livelihoods. Memory. Artist, film maker and photographer Bhavani GS has been obsessed with the many faces of Cauvery for years now and decided to travel along with the river “to see what […]
At first glance the Scorpio that Delhi-based artist-brothers Manil and Rohit Gupta have driven down in looks like a blown up toy straight out of a comic book. Look closer and the spontaneously drawn organic forms, graffiti, speech bubbles, street art, language from everyday life, all come together like a thoughtfully executed painting that has […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]