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When art goes foody
17 April 2013 5:52 AM ISTWorldwide, gastronomy engages with the way we eat and how we collect food, as market forces influence procurement, packaging and sale. A...
Stringing Iranian, Indian puppets
11 April 2013 6:00 AM ISTThe puppetry tradition in Iran and India – two nations which share historical ties – have several similarities. Both assimilate from ancient folk...
Tracing tandoori kebab toTurkey
30 March 2013 4:08 PM ISTSucculent morsels of meat marinated with spices and skewer-grilled in hearths or ovens have tantalised the taste buds of food lovers for centuries....
Not the same old anymore!
6 March 2013 4:58 AM ISTThe role of the museum and archives – which have been around for nearly 300 years – is expanding in their scope from conventional repositories and...
Revelling in a new Egypt
25 Feb 2013 3:28 PM ISTNoted Egyptian writer and columnist Ahdaf Soueif is revelling in a new Egypt, more inclusive and aware of human rights, after the revolution of ...
The power of the printed word
15 Feb 2013 4:35 AM ISTThe printed book is still sought after by readers in India. The publishing industry, valued at nearly $2 billion, is witnessing a healthy growth...
End of art affair... Not!
8 Feb 2013 4:33 AM ISTBroad trends of a gradual market revival, fresh interest in emerging contemporary artists, diversity of works, new creative energy and heightened...
My art’s evolving: Akbar Padamsee
7 Feb 2013 4:25 AM ISTAkbar Padamsee is one of the last surviving masters of modern Indian art, who unlike his peers, has diversified his oeuvre to include paintings, nude...
Post-Taliban, Afghan stage finds people connect
22 Jan 2013 4:53 AM ISTTheatre in Afghanistan is trying to connect to audiences as a tool of communication and story-telling even 11 years after the curbs on performing arts...
Royal spread, this
12 Jan 2013 5:30 AM ISTErstwhile Royal families have closely guarded culinary secrets of their kitchens like treasures down the ages. But the struggle to keep the estates...
On the road to a new order
9 Jan 2013 4:04 AM ISTThe new performing arts of contemporary India are chanting the mantra of social angst and the slow transformation the country is going through on the...
'I Was dishonest with stage for 20 years’
8 Jan 2013 4:03 AM ISTVeteran Bollywood actor Kulbhushan Kharbanda marked his return to the Delhi stage after 20 years at the inauguration of the 15th edition of Bharat...