On Women and their Right to Dress
With the protests in Iran and supporters of Iranians voicing their anguish against the Islamic Republic, women have found their autonomy...
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- Dec 10, 2022
Is Art Political?
1887, Beliatore village, West Bengal. A curious child was born. At the age of 16, he left home to move to modern-day Kolkata and enrolled...
- Nov 6, 2022
Behind the Mask: Vita Sackville-West
The androgynously gorgeous Lady Nicholson or as we know the sapphic baroness Vita Sackville-West had a fabulously dynamic identity...
- Sep 30, 2022
The Mystic through Rabindranath
The irrepressible desire of a number of poets through the annals of the past; exhibit steadfast disjunction from the physical parts of...
- Jul 6, 2022
Nabaneeta Dev Sen, A Legacy of Literature
“I was conceived in the womb of one poet and sired by another. Poetry, I suspect, was ruling my stars from the very first moment of my...
- Mar 26, 2022
Poetry, Protest and Propaganda — a Journey of Art Through Centuries of War
We have come a long way from where we began. Time has shifted, so have the tectonic plates. What remains terrifyingly constant is, people...
- Mar 26, 2022
Changing the Dynamics of ‘War Cinema’ using ‘Conflict’ as the Lens
have a stereotyped expectation around them which most of the filmmakers only manipulate with creative liberty but never muster the...
- Mar 26, 2022
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - Beyond the Fence
In the mouth of war, humanity decays. It's only the living who know of their motherland, the dead only survives in the soils of history....
- Feb 27, 2022
Queer Literature – through the lens of 1950s
Art and literature climb out of the womb of desperation, either to express or communicate the tides that relentlessly push you against...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bastar Art- The Patrimony of Tribal Craftsmanship
Bastar Wooden Handmade Art (reflecting local mythology, rituals and folklore in exquisite shapes and forms) Bastar, a district in the...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bengal, A Martyr’s Poem
Forlorn palaces cling defiantly to their once-glorious pasts, and the half-ruined mosques and mildew-covered tombstones of East India...
- Jan 25, 2022
पधारो म्हारे देश
पधारो म्हारे देश राजस्थान को “राजाओं की भूमि” कहा जाता है। राजस्थान में कई खूबसूरत कलात्मक और सांस्कृतिक परंपराएं हैं जो...
- Jan 25, 2022
Parai – The Music of the People
Be it a silent street of a small village or a noisy neighbourhood of a town, we would’ve seen children making music instruments of empty...
- Jan 16, 2022
Kerala, My land is a woman
My land is a woman. She gets up at four in the morning every day, washes her long hair of ancestry in the Periyar, her rough hands that...
- Jan 16, 2022
Odisha, more than India’s best kept secret
A worn-out princess as I always refer to her as; my motherland precedes a royal history of the Great Kalinga War that lined the path of...
- Dec 20, 2021
Remembering a Revolution, Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy, Courtesy : The Guardian “On her neck, she wears not the thaali, that marker of marriage, but a cyanide capsule. She...
- Dec 5, 2021
A Love-Letter to Our Cities
Istanbul and The Golden Horn, by Victor Costachescu / A love letter to our cities The year is 2006. Announcing the winner of the Nobel...
- Nov 14, 2021
Sudha Murthy – The Art of Giving
Sudha Murthy One of my teachers used to say, people cultivate the habit of reading by the essence of their first read book. I was a...
- Nov 1, 2021
The Painted Poems of William Blake, and an Era of Changing Colours
With the publication of lyrical ballads, the Romantic movement started in England. It was a period of transition and experiment. Through...
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