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Commemorating the Melody and Qawwali King: Roshan

While producing and directing a documentary on music director Roshan, I had the privilege of interviewing scores of people, who had been closely associated with him including his immediate family. The...

2017-08-19 15:41:11.0

The Melancholic Poet of Celluloid

July 9, 1925! Shiv Shankar and Vasanthi Padukone were blessed with their firstborn - a son. Named Vasant Shiv Shankar Padukone, the lad was quite mischievous from his very childhood. One day while pla...

2017-08-12 14:07:15.0

Taking photography to the next level

Canon India's unique initiative to tap Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV cities of the country has been instrumental, with a vision to have a proliferating India, Canon India takes pride to be socially in...

2017-08-05 14:30:12.0

Delhi abstractionist – Art residency in Spain

Abstractionist Abhijit Pathak gives tuition to school children to sustain his art practices. Pathak has recently won the Can Serrat Art Residency for Spain and is among artists and writers to visit Ba...

2017-08-05 14:27:53.0

China's doklam transgression endangers 50 years of bullet-less border management

If the current Sino-India stand-off gets resolved – we can only hope it will – then come this October (2017), the two nations will have created a record of completing 50 years of bullet-less managemen...

2017-07-29 13:50:43.0

Tyeb Mehta's Mahishasuras and Rickshaws

The 92nd birth anniversary of Tyeb Mehta, the mandarin of the metaphor falls on July 26, 2017. Tyeb passed away on July 2, 2009. It wouldn't be wrong to state that auction houses all over the world wa...

2017-07-22 13:58:55.0

Rural culture and religiosity

Just concluded at the Metropolitan Museum in New York is YG Srimati's retrospective of 25 watercolour paintings done over 4 decades. Curated by John Guy, it was a show that spoke of the inherent under...

2017-07-15 14:29:14.0

Manto's Brush with Bollywood Tribute to a Literary Genius

"Main Chalta Firta Bambai hoon". (I embody Bombay) Saadat Hasan Manto made this revelatory statement at a literary meeting in Lahore, on October 8 of 1951. Manto simply loved the city of Bomba...

2017-07-08 14:26:38.0

Homecoming to Marvel's Family

Spider-man was introduced by the Marvel Comics in Amazing Fantasy Vol 15 in 1963 and now 54 years later we are going to encounter the third version of the character in Spider-man: Homecoming. When Mar...

2017-07-01 14:35:19.0

MOMA: Unpacking 150 years Frank Lloyd Wright

MOMA in New York finds a distinctive spot in the orbit of art unveilings with a rostrum of shows that pan out into the iconic intensities of world famous artists and designers. After a historic suite ...

2017-06-24 14:25:52.0

Art basel diary Between tradition and modernity

India's India's finest critic, curator and theorist Ranjit Hoskote wrote in 2014, that Sudarshan Shetty's works reference the "formal and conceptual ability to counterbalance the aura of the monumenta...

2017-06-17 14:32:16.0

BORN TO BLUSH UNSEEN

The New Yorker's story on Arundhati Roy's new book is accompanied by a stunning portrait of the author Roy. Standing against a backdrop of nature's tranquil trees and bushes Roy seems framed against a...

2017-06-10 13:33:55.0

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