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Orijit Sen, Pakhi Sen
Heart of Light
05 Feb 2021
The contestants have to create new stories inspired by the original Hamzanama but grounded in today’s reality.
Ektara Collective, Mukulika R
Ektara Collective: Building Resistance, One Film a Time
11 Dec 2020
For a long time, cinema was controlled by certain classes and castes that shaped mainstream narrative and aesthetics.
PTI
Contemporary Dancer Astad Deboo Passes Away
10 Dec 2020
Deboo, 73, was noted for creating a modern dance vocabulary that was uniquely Indian, while amalgamating western dance techniques.
Leslie Xavier
The Poetry of Diego Maradona, and Hateful Truth in It
27 Nov 2020
Diego Maradona’s football has been described recently as poetry, and in his death poetry has been extinguished in the game. Except, just as difficult as it is to understand and appreciate poetry in…
Newsclick Report
Legendary Actor Soumitra Chatterjee Passes Away at 85
15 Nov 2020
The iconic actor has a repertoire of over 250 films with directors such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen etc.
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
The Migrant Worker and the Goddess
30 Oct 2020
The plight of the migrant worker exploded as a repeating theme in Puja pandals across Kolkata at a time when the Central government made its scandalous declaration in Parliament about “lack of data”…
KS Subramanian
An Outburst of Reactions to Life as an Architect
14 Oct 2020
Gautam Bhatia’s new book speaks of lives and longings in the wake of dramatic economic and political change in India.
Indian Cultural Forum
TM Krishna’s The Edict Project: Ashoka and the Quest for Compassion
14 Oct 2020
APARNA IN CONVERSATION WITH TM KRISHNA
Tarique Anwar
How Urmila Devi Found Liberation in Mithila Painting
25 Sep 2020
Initially chastised for her art, Urmila Devi has now won multiple awards for her take on the Mithila painting.
Tarique Anwar
Madhubani’s Painters Complain of Govt Apathy with Dwindling Earnings from a Famous Art Form
24 Sep 2020
In the absence of marketing channels, female artisans find themselves trapped in the clutches of middlemen, who corner most of the profits.