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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‘In my art work, I represent the tradition of moralists and political reformers. To save people means to save art itself. The activity of an artist means the active denial of death.’ – Chittaprosad, in the film Confession, made by Pavel Hobl of Czechoslovakia Very few gallerists can take the chances that Ashish Anand of […]
The ingredients: A prominent gallery backing you, an effective PR machinery espousing your worth as the next best investment and then, an innate sense of being media-savvy. The dish? Instant fame! With the burgeoning art market on their side, more and more younger artists are mastering this fool-proof recipe for achieving both financial and […]
I had just come back from a week-long trip when the doorbell rang. Fervently hoping it would be the home-delivery guy, I opened the door to find my 53-year-old neighbour, the good samaritan that he is, standing sheepishly with all my post. Sheepish is a trait I don’t normally associate with this effusive father […]
Take a small detour from the famous Spice Route of old into a relatively undiscovered part of rural Rajasthan and one of the world’s only open-air art galleries. Painted houses fade like painted ladies of old. Their stately presence, battered shutters and pigeon filled lofts disguise an ancient beauty now fading into red tinged sunsets. […]
It was an out-of-focus photograph – of close friend and fellow artist Anjum Singh setting up her show at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi – that started it all for Manisha Gera Baswani. A lesser eye would have perhaps rejected the ‘flawed’ image, but being an artist herself, Baswani knew that it had […]
Just last month, Maqbool Fida Husain was busy giving telecon interviews denying that his most recent painting, posted on the Internet immediately after Mamata Banerjee’s landslide victory in the assembly polls, had anything to do with depicting the TMC supremo as Maa Durga. “I have depicted India, to express that woman power is on the […]
If you are not out travelling to escape the Delhi heat, then it is time to indulge yourself in some of the choicest art that the city galleries have on offer. While earlier, a group art show during the traditional ‘off’ season was usually considered banal – as most galleries would merely put out their […]
You could have stepped into a science lab. A hand drawn human brain connected to jumbled up wires sits precariously on one wall. Several similar drawings across the remaining space create an anatomical collage of the brain’s journey and make you wonder about the complexities of human mind. But this is an art gallery and […]
It is a calmer day than usual at Jagriti, Bangalore’s youngest theatre space. Squares of sunshine fall on the floor from the glass insets in the roof, two trees shoot from the floor to the ceiling, prints of Rabindra Nath Tagore’s paintings watch you with eyes full of many deeply lived lifetimes from a softly […]
“The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.” This is a famous quote by one of India’s cult figures Rabindranath Tagore who, even seven decades after his death, remains the pride of not just Bengalis but Indians all over. Tagore songs – famously known as Rabindra Sangeet – are still popular […]
When you are given a ‘post-lunch’ appointment with the grand old man of Indian art, Syed Haider Raza – whose homecoming this January after having lived and worked in Paris for over six decades as been as much in news as the record breaking acrylic on canvas Saurashtra that went for a whopping Rs 16.4 […]
There is the natural order of things where man, beast and nature inhabit their designated worlds. There is poise, equilibrium and harmony here and then there is chaos as we know it when lines are erased, habitats interfered with and innocence interrupted. Prominent art writer and curator Giridhar Khasnis possibly pondered these questions as he ideated a show about the unpredictable relationship between the animal world […]