1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (255+ words) However, the roots of these creations also go back to her unique Indo-Polish heritage that Ms Niranjan belongs to - all of which we discussed ahead of her performance. An excerpt from the interview: Yes, very much. My grandmother was Polish,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (895+ words) Local Samosa At Project Otenga in Delhi, the Elephant Apple Arrives From the Northeast With a Theory of Home Started as an NID thesis on mental health and multidisciplinary culture, Kabyashree Borgohain's Project Otenga has evolved into Delhi's most conceptually…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (358+ words) Image courtesy: Prachi Dhabal Deb We spoke to three of India's most acclaimed cake artists, Prachi Dhabal Deb, Megha Kwatra Madan, and Darpan Saxena of Whisk Cake Studio, to understand how the industry got here, what clients actually want, and…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago  (400+ words) India's folk and indigenous art traditions have always had a visibility problem. They travel well at craft fairs, dress up handloom stores, and lend their motifs to corporate gifting. What they rarely receive is what contemporary art gets as a…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (553+ words) A book spread consisting of Indian graphic novels and comics The 1970s and 80s became Indian comics' golden age: Raj Comics gave the country Nagraj in 1986 and Super Commando Dhruv, homegrown superheroes selling in the hundreds of thousands. The 1990s crash, cable television,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1019+ words) From a play 'Phone Pe' directed by Om Katare. At an Ahmedabad gallery, a fish has already consumed ocean waste. Amongst the 26 works in acrylic on canvas, namely, "Borrowed Earth" by Tanmay Shah, it is a stark reminder of what…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (452+ words) "Nestled within Delhi's Sunder Nursery, where Mughal-era monuments stand sentinel amongst meticulously restored gardens, the Aranyani Pavilion emerges as something far more radical than contemporary public art This is architecture as activism, a 200-square-metre structure that transforms colonial ecological violence…...