Comedians readily go online with a laugh

Sidika Sehgal

You can’t shut up a stand-up comedian. Faced with cancelled shows and a grim future, this creative tribe has found a ...

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Will the Kunbi weave survive?

Ashwini Kamat

Babu rao Babaji Tilve’s face lights up as he takes down the tarpaulin covering his loom and weaving tools. “I ...

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Pirates, camels, parrots in Raghubir Nagar

Sidika Sehgal

Raghubir Nagar, a low-income settlement of about 900 jhuggis in West Delhi, is an eye-catching sight. The walls and doors of ...

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Festivals, fairs and rituals

India’s fascinating world of fairs, festivals and rituals came alive at an exhibition organised by Essen Communications at Karnataka Chitrakala ...

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Art meets social change at Khoj

Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi

In 1997, Khoj International Artists’ Association began as an annual workshop with local and international artists with the intention of ...

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Alternative bookstore holds its own in Goa

Arti Das, Mapusa

The Other India Bookstore (OIB) at Mapusa in Goa is unlike any other bookshop. Lined with books from the floor ...

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Remembering Azmi, the poet of hope

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

In today’s climate, it is important to remember people who used their art as an instrument of social change: it ...

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Weaving history and carpets in Mirzapur

Susheela Nair, Mirzapur

The oldest hub of carpet weaving in India is Mirzapur in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh. The Ganga flows past ...

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Aisi Taisi races against reality

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

The big challenge before India’s standup comedians, as Varun Grover says in a promotional video for Aisi Taisi Democracy (ATD), ...

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A nursery for a Sunday bazaar

Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi

When Arjun Sahani, a mountaineer, found farmers growing crops organically in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh, he started a ...

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Shaadi bands to maestros in music museum

Susheela Nair, Bengaluru

The Indian Music Experience (IME), India’s only high-tech interactive music museum, is Bengaluru’s latest cultural hub. Sprawled across 50,000 square ...

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At Sunder Nursery, history and nature come together

Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi

New Delhi now has a vast green space in the middle of the city with resplendent trees, a sparkling lake, ...

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Goa heritage: Mapping beautiful old homes

Derek Almeida, Panaji

Goa is practically littered with mesmerising houses and government buildings that hark back to 450 years of colonial rule. So ...

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Skydiving to Kambla to skiing and more

Civil Society News, Bengaluru

About 100 eye-catching pictures were displayed at an exhibition on ‘The Great Outdoors’ at Karnataka Chitrakal Parishath in Bengaluru over ...

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With solar and LED vaastu home can be hi-tech too

Susheela Nair, Bengaluru

As I stepped into Sankrithi, the dream home of Shivakumar, an entrepreneur in Bengaluru, I was struck by the feeling ...

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Slavery across the world

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

Every eight minutes a child goes missing without a trace in India. But children certainly aren’t the only victims of ...

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The marginalised mother

Kavita Charanji, New Delhi

The choicest epithets – wicked, mean, cruel – are often flung at hapless stepmothers. Such stereotypes are reinforced by a ...

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Women in a man's world

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

A much-hyped annual beauty pageant and a secretive Hindu extremist women’s training camp are worlds so far apart from each ...

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World tucks into Lunchbox

Saibal Chatterjee, Cannes/New Delhi

Of all the Indian films that were screened in Cannes this year, the standout was Ritesh Batra’s debut feature, The ...

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Making a jolly good point

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

When writer-director Subhash Kapoor’s third feature film, Jolly LLB, opened in the multiplexes on the Ides of March, few expected ...

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Magic Men of Mayong

Civil Society News, New Delhi

The ‘magical’ place is only a 40-km drive from Guwahati, but few youngsters in the capital city of Assam, hooked ...

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The wayward river

Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi

Ten years in the making, Char-The No Man’s Island, posed daunting physical and logistical challenges. But much like the mighty ...

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Sifting fact from fiction

Arjun Sen, New Delhi

PEGGY Mohan’s second novel, The Youngest Suspect, is a fictionalized account of what happens when young Muslim boys are brutalized ...

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