Temple City meets Smart City: The first Bhubaneswar Art Trail questions rhetoric behind development

The inaugural Trail features the works of well-known names, such as Sudarshan Shetty, Sharmila Samant, Gigi Scaria and Arunkumar HG.

Kamayani Sharma

· Yesterday · 03:30 pm

Satire and the Malayali: Why India’s best cartoonists almost always come from Kerala

Political cartooning and Kerala have been a perfect match since the first cartoon was published in the state in 1919.

Malini Nair

· Yesterday · 11:30 am

Photos: An Indian couple has built a collection of 4,500 Raj-era picture postcards

A part of Sangeeta and Ratnesh Mathur’s collection has been curated into the book ‘Picturesque India’.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Dec 09, 2018 · 11:30 am

Why 2018 was a breakthrough year for the Latin jazz pianist Pradyumna Singh Manot

From playing at international festivals to becoming the director of the NCPA Jazz Collective, Manot’s career has been on an upswing.

Tania Bhattacharya

· Dec 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

A new Indian zine gives sex education lessons to ignorant millennial men

‘Bedx Talks’ by artists Priyanka Paul and Rushil Bhatnagar is irreverent and inclusive.

Sushmita Sundaram

· Dec 07, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Review: The best external drives that are fast and dependable

Most external desktop drives perform similarly, but there are ways to tell them apart.

Justin Krajeski

· Dec 07, 2018 · 11:59 am

Interview: How Kochi Biennale’s first female curator made the event more inclusive

Anita Dube has worked towards creating a platform where marginalised artists speak but ‘not as victim’.

Chanpreet Khurana

· Dec 06, 2018 · 11:30 am

This Bengali radio show’s storytelling skills could put even Netflix in the shade

Sunday Suspense’s dramatised renditions of horror and crime stories are so popular that they’ve even spawned unofficial apps.

Preetha Banerjee

· Dec 05, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Priests stop menstruating women from entering a temple. No, it’s not Sabarimala – it’s a video game

Created two years ago, ‘Darshan Diversion’ uncannily mirrors the events unfolding today.

Damini Kulkarni

· Dec 05, 2018 · 11:30 am

The Bandra resident who went on to become a pioneering tap dancer and the ‘first lady of swing’

Bombay-born Sarah Petronio blurred ‘the boundaries between music and dance’ with her style of rhythm tap.

Anu Kumar

· Dec 04, 2018 · 11:30 am

Why isn’t artist Dashrath Patel’s brilliance widely recognised? His protégé Pinakin Patel explains

‘People only want to see…branded iconified art and he was too absorbed in his craft to care about being iconified.’

Chandrima Pal

· Dec 03, 2018 · 03:30 pm

How seven displaced families with Rs 1,500 built Latoo, a border village in Jammu and Kashmir

Dislocated and displaced several times after Partition, the residents of Latoo have learned an invaluable lesson: to survive you need to be self-reliant.

Asmita Bakshi

· Dec 03, 2018 · 11:30 am