Arts

Implicit in the title of Emami Art’s recent show of ceramics, Bhu: The Act of Becoming, is both a tribute to terra and a celebration of the magical transformation of wet clay into...

Wasim Ahmed Khan (picture, bottom) took the stage next for his vocal recital — he started off with Raga Multani. A sincere proponent of the Agra gharana, Khan always leaves a distinct mark ...

As wave after wave of Covid-19 infections sweeps over the globe, running a theatre group is becoming increasingly difficult in downtown Calcutta — the shows have dried up; some members are reluc...

The work with which the pdf file opens is curiously ambiguous: a lone figure in a vast, purple space set with glinting heavenly bodies. The image is suffused with an epiphanic pantheism. Yet, The...

The pandemic has successfully shifted our attention from some of the crises that an Indian citizen faces under the current regime — the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 tops the list. Although ...

Almost two decades ago, a friend had gifted me a remarkable book titled Tokyo Nobody. It contained photographs by Masataka Nakano of some of the most populous districts of Tokyo, where, as if by ...

Pretty, charming, light and airy. These adjectives succinctly describe the salient characteristics of the works of Narayan Shridhar Bendre (1910-1992). He had travelled widely all over the Indian subc...

New Canvases — that’s the simple title, shorn of thematic references. But the new canvases of Sheetal Gattani, presented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, at its recent show — ...

What happened to Dasharath after Ram, Lakshman and Sita left Ayodhya for 14 years of exile? It is well-known that the grief-stricken king took ill and eventually succumbed to death within a week. But ...

A well-researched documentary made on Dutta by Ashoke Chattopadhyay was premiered on the second evening. The same evening also saw an hour-long guest performance by Guwahati-based Moinul Haque. Assist...