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Ranjit Hoskote
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Mary, Nirmala Matha, Devi: The link across religion through iconography and festivals in Goa
The worship of the mother goddess is deeply embedded in the indigenous belief system at all levels of the social formation in the coastal state.
Ranjit Hoskote
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In ‘Blurring Boundaries’ virtual studio, traditional art practices reimagined for the Covid-19 era
The project has brought together six artists together in a digital environment of conversation and collaboration.
Ranjit Hoskote
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This anthology opposes the delusional and self-destructive tyranny of the vampiric global system
Ranjit Hoskote’s foreward to a collection of writings from India on climate change.
Ranjit Hoskote
Trending
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Constitution does not allow preferential treatment for religious majority: SC judge BV Nagarathna
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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Video: Watch this breakdancer’s amazing performance in sari and high heels
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Thailand Open 2023: PV Sindhu knocked out in opening round; Kiran George stuns world No 9 Shi Yu Qi
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Crime fiction: A detective’s holiday is cut short when strange bloody handprints appear on the walls
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‘Hand on the placard, fist around the stone’: Five poems by Ranjit Hoskote viewing a ‘nation’s fate’
‘Sing, you tell yourself.’
Ranjit Hoskote
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The Art of Solitude: Ranjit Hoskote considers the prayerful joy of ‘Annunciation’ during lockdown
‘It has always brought me a still, deep inwardness.’
Ranjit Hoskote
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The Art of Resistance: What strange things will happen in India tonight?: A ghazal by Ranjit Hoskote
The poet has some questions.
Ranjit Hoskote
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‘Carpet or road?’: Watch the freshly laid surface of a Maharashtra highway being peeled off
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Caught on TV: Joe Biden lets out a chuckle as a reporter asks if he will ever pardon Donald Trump
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Watch: Daily commuters cheer for a motorman of Mumbai local train on his last day of work
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Watch: How the sheriff’s team rescued a bear trapped inside a vehicle in Nevada, USA
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Watch: Performer with one leg gets standing ovation for dance on Britain’s Got Talent
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Mehlli Gobhai (1931-2018): An art of refusal and consecration
The painter challenged us to home in on light within the darkness of the vividly anxious yet promising here and now.
Ranjit Hoskote
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A rare look at the early works of VN Jyothi Basu, one of India’s most accomplished artists
The exhibition ‘Portraits and Landscapes on Paper’ comprises Basu’s works from the 1980s and ’90s, many of which are prescient of our world.
Ranjit Hoskote
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Jonahwhale: Five poems from Ranjit Hoskote’s new book that listens to the histories of the seas
‘The ocean offers us an education in anamnesia, the struggle against forgetting…’
Ranjit Hoskote
The Reel
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‘Chitrakut’ review: A wandering tour of complicated relationships
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Start the week with a film: The documentary ‘Tina’ is a tribute to an irrepressible spirit
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‘Citadel’ review: Secrets, lies and banality
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‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks
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‘Jogira Sara Ra Ra’ review: Funny in bits and bobs
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Sakti Burman: The artist who’s the heir to the poets who composed Ramayana and Mahabharata
As a storyteller, Burman takes his place in a millennia-long genealogy of fabulists.
Ranjit Hoskote
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In Gieve Patel’s new exhibition, you can see the vulnerable figure on the sidelines of society
Despite their seeming recognisability, the figures in Patel’s ‘Footboard Rider’ remain enigmatic.
Ranjit Hoskote
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An Indian artist is using discarded household gadgets to create a theatre of dreams and aspirations
Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s workspace is more laboratory or factory floor than studio.
Ranjit Hoskote
The Field
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Hockey Men’s Junior Asia Cup: Boby Singh Dhami nets hat-trick as India beat Korea 9-1 to reach final
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Cameo Super Kings: How CSK clinched a record-equalling fifth IPL title
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Thailand Open 2023: PV Sindhu knocked out in opening round; Kiran George stuns world No 9 Shi Yu Qi
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Sports world daily: Medvedev stunned at French Open; Roma take on Sevilla in Europa League final
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Thailand Open Super 500: Satwik-Chirag return to a special event; Sindhu, Srikanth and Co in action