Arts

A garden has a myriad associations and interpretations for most. While some think of gardens fondly as spaces of recreation, some look at it as the last vestiges of nature within a concrete maze. Some...

Like the many cultural artefacts often lost to the crevices of time and displacement during the colonial rule of India, are the many unknown and unsung masters of Indian art who would often be commiss...

You had written this single during lockdown. How did you conceive this piece? The lockdown was a difficult period and we saw many loved ones passing away. Everyone was affected in some way or the oth...

Having toured parts of the globe with its brand of puppet theatre, Dolls Theatre has come back home in the most literal sense. Sudip Gupta and Shreeparna Bhanja Gupta, the principal organizers of the ...

If eyes are the windows of the soul, Sanat Kar’s paintings lay bare the artist’s psyche. Eyes have remained central to Kar’s artistic sensibilities — whether in the sparse line...

Feeling utterly, lethally trapped by an invisible, invincible enemy — the rampaging virus — is what prompted the current series by Lala Rukh Selim of Bangladesh, In the Time of a Pandemic ...

A mark of inventive resilience exhibited by theatre artists during lockdown has to be the discovery of new performance spaces. Take Dark Studio, for example. Tucked away inside the meandering entrails...

The amazing potential of instruments such as the kamaicha and the sindhi sarangi was amply evident during a digital presentation of western Rajasthan’s desert songs organized by Google Arts and ...

Bishnupur is widely known for its beautiful terracotta temples dating back to the 17th century. These are covered with a profusion of exquisite bas-relief panels depicting narratives from Vaishnava te...

A hot mess: It was the moment when Miley Cyrus’s career took a new turn and so did Robin Thicke’s but for a different reason. Leaving her Hannah Montana character aside, she joined Thicke ...