Arts

Tell us more about the sketches we see in your post... what are the themes? Last year my sketches were to do with lockdown stories, this time it is based on a woman in search of herself. What inspir...

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After remaining in withdrawal mode for some years, People’s Little Theatre staged a comeback at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ebar Rajar Pala on March 29, 2021, Utpal Dutt’s 92nd...

When a simple image, neither loud nor logorrhoeic, can plug into disturbing references at once, it becomes the pick of the show, in this case Constellations, seen at the Kolkata Centre for Creati...

Following in the tradition of studio photography started by pioneers like Samuel Bourne and Lala Deen Dayal, Suresh Punjabi was a visionary entrepreneur-artist. When he stood before his sitters, Punja...

When did you realise that Josh had a knack for music? Arunima: He used to sing even when he was quite small, maybe seven or eight years old. He was in the school choir since class III and also loved j...

Every age is both the best of times and the worst of times, depending on the chronicler. If you are anxious about where society is headed, the smug voices of power and privilege will proclaim there ne...

With the second wave of Covid-19 wreaking havoc all over India, it may now sound absurd that Calcutta theatres seemed to have come to terms with the deadly virus until a few weeks back. February and M...

Song of Whisper, a solo performance made by Srabasti Ghosh, speckled the space with silent corners of a woman’s ‘home’ replete with rhythms of the body, sounds of chopping, cutting, ...

The year 1970 was tumultuous for The Beatles as the four members started their individual journeys. Paul McCartney turned in a tuneful album — McCartney — with a ballad (Maybe I’m Am...