Arts

Bengali drama competitions are a league of their own. Those organized outside West Bengal and with a decidedly pan-Indian vision have their own unique stories to tell. Such annual events not only cele...

Of all the celebrated splendours of Calcutta’s Raj Bhavan, doubtlessly the grandest of all the official residences for the governors and lieutenant-generals of Indian states and Union territories, t...

Utpal Dutt minced no words when he described his theatre as ‘a weapon of political propaganda’. He also iterated that ‘the people who can’t read or write’ are ‘the people who matter’ and...

Earlier this year, life came to a halt for movement artists across the globe as all carefully laid plans for shows, rehearsals, recordings and practice were upturned by Covid-19. In this unprecedented...

Over 46 days from April 15, Birla Academy treated those in isolation during the lockdown to a serialized art feast comprising works by around 108 artists, almost all of them taken from its own collect...

Lyricist Javed Akhtar has become the first Indian to be named the recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award, named after the renowned evolutionary biologist.Akhtar has been given the honour for critical ...

While industrialists and environmentalists have been looking at the dark and the bright sides of the lockdown, Calcutta’s Emami Art Gallery invited patrons to visit Black, White and More. Virtually,...

There is a need to resurrect past concerts of Indian Classical Music now that social distancing norms have put paid to the hopes of live performances. Maya Art Space (Calcutta) celebrated its 7th anni...

The seduction of the Mahabharata is that, as Saoli Mitra’s play, Naathabati Anaathbat, reminds the audience, ‘juge juge hoe tar notun bykhan’ (in every age there unfold/ new meanings from the ol...

One started believing that Totakahini, Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of the colonial education system, has exhausted itself in theatre. Only a few — like the ones produced by the Department of Dr...