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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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
When Khoj Studios, an NGO located in Delhi’s Khirkee Village, announced a day long workshop at their premises to introduce the concept of ‘augmented reality’ in art, and requested the participants to carry their own smart phones, the first reaction was of confusion. Not because one didn’t own the gadget, but for the fact that […]
Kanchi, Chicklet, Son Pari, Parachute, Pitcher, Gol Chakker, Chunniwala, Mickey Mouse…wondering why we are rambling about these unrelated words? Well, these are just a few names out of the 40 odd games that children of Khirkee village – a semi-urban area of South Delhi – have invented as part of outdoor playing. Nothing unique about this, […]