The Art of Solitude: The vivid experience of immediacy in the singing voice

Immediacy comprises its own unpredictable, even radical, meaning.

Amit Chaudhuri

· Jun 19, 2020 · 03:30 pm

The Art of Solitude: Covid-19 has made the window both a cusp and gateway to an uncertain future

The time we spent indoors captive in our homes is a defining characteristic of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Sarica Robyn Balsari-Palsule

· Jun 14, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: In these surreal times, John Coltrane’s jazz is an invitation to believe

As we flit between existential anxiousness and soulfulness within a chosen sanctuary, the American jazz legend is never too far away.

Siddharth Dasgupta

· May 30, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: A traditional Telugu version of Ludo is helping bring a semblance of normalcy

Conversation and laughter over games of ashta chamma will be the memories of this anxious time after it has passed.

Mallik Thatipalli

· May 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

The Art of Solitude: When life becomes about breathing well – and doing good

A big discovery during the coronavirus lockdown: life is – quite literally – about breath.

Saumya Balsari

· May 18, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: Why an imaginary Indian village wedding scene is deeply comforting

Valentina Anopova’s ‘Arrival of the Fiance at the Wedding’ from 1986 has accompanied the writer across continents.

Aarti Shah

· May 10, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: These three painters are more relevant now than ever before

Why we need to look once again at Amrita Sher-Gil, Edvard Munch and Edward Hopper.

Parul Bhandari

· May 05, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: ‘Quarantine Blues’, a poem by Manohar Shetty

Now you can time the growth/ Rate of your toenails or stare...

Manohar Shetty

· May 02, 2020 · 11:30 am

The art of solitude: K Satchidanandan writes poetry to live beyond Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter

Two poems and a musing from the acclaimed poet and writer.

K Satchidanandan

· May 01, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: Travel vicariously through Central Asia with Robert Byron’s classic

‘The Road to Oxiana’ is a celebration of the type of wide-ranging mobility currently denied to us.

Dinyar Patel

· Apr 30, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: Why I am revisiting my Tintin and Babar comics

Children’s books teach us about the world and ourselves.

Krina Patel

· Apr 29, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Solitude: In Rabindranath Tagore’s letters, the gifts of a life in solitude

The Nobel Laureate reveals the need to take a pause from the staged antics of a mechanised life.

Bhaswati Ghosh

· Apr 28, 2020 · 11:30 am