Filmmaker Abhishek Swain makes a point about conserving water in 30 seconds.

Running a conservation magazine has its own issues, as Sahgal has discovered over the years. “People accuse us of being spoilsports all the time, but they are turning a blind eye to nature,” he says.

With five films in post-production, actor Abhay Deol is back in action. "Mumbai, where my work is, has become too noisy and polluted, so I tend to escape. But I have been working, which is why these five films are almost ready," he says.

The museum displays a wide range of art, from ancient sculptures to contemporary paintings, depicting India’s rich culture and heritage, re-interpreted through a child’s imagination. The 50 artefacts include a sculpture of freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi’s Charkha.

Organised by The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in collaboration with Delhi Art Gallery — titled “Drishyakala”, begins with British artists Thomas and William Daniell, who travelled through India late eighteenth century onwards to produce “Oriental Scenery”, often described as “the finest illustrated work on India”. “

Hema Malini has inadvertently stumbled onto something when she says that politics and films have a lot in common but it has nothing to do with the slog. Every successful politician is also, like his Bollywood counterpart, a charming and inveterate performer.

To mark the 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma, Suresh Sharma is directing a play, Pehla Satyagrahi, (pictured) with the NSD Repertory Company, of which he is the chief.

Over the last year, MK Raina has staged Stay Yet A While and Hatya Ek Aakar Ki on Mahatma Gandhi. Now, he has turned Desai’s memoir into a musical play, Baabla Aur Bapu @ Sabarmati Ashram.

Wit, cynicism, humour, and sometimes vitriol — a slew of politically charged songs are brewing up during the 2019 elections.

The musicians, who performed this week as part of Coveda’s Khula Manch in Chandigarh, believe that every emotion has a melody and that all of them are living a rhythmic life.

The INTACH Filmit Film Festival 2019-20 was organised by INTACH’S (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) Heritage Education and Communication Service.

An art residency draws out cutting-edge works on socio-cultural realities and the environment.

A group of engineers in Pune are addressing the problem of vanishing sparrows by teaching enthusiasts to build birdboxes.

Kanwal Pal Singh explores these ideas with his exhibition ‘MG@150’ at Alliance Francaise, Chandigarh. Singh looks at Gandhi’s beliefs and ideologies and how they influence young minds.

Hina Siddiqui has been working with young learners and teachers since 2008, and is focussing on training people to work with children in various economic and social contexts. “Drama is my key methodology whether I am teaching performing arts, life skills, English, history or gender studies,” she says.

Presented by the Bengali theatre group Dhumketu, the play is riddled with statistics. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, India has the sixth-highest female suicide death rates in the world; and more than one lakh people have committed suicide every year, over the last decade.

The CIMA Art Mela promises an array of artwork at competitive prices. It will be held from April 12 to 16 at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi

Super Deluxe, Kumararaja’s sophomore act, which comes eight years after, is a fitting follow-up. It is both similar and different. It has the same disparate threads-plotting pattern; the characters are as messed up and messy.

The CFO of the Year award was given to Srinivas Phatak, executive director and chief financial officer, Hindustan Unilever, while Sashi Jagdishan, CFO at HDFC Bank, received the Jury Special award.

Non-fiction stories about environmental, cultural, political and social justice issues will be screened at ‘Mountainfilm on Tour’, a documentary film festival from Colorado, US, that is travelling to Delhi this week.

An exhibition in Delhi traces the stories and the themes within one of India’s oldest syles of embroidery, Kantha.

This election season has seen a string of political films that exalt national leaders.

A Shakespearean adaptation of Romeo and Juliet presents modern-day realities

An INTACH project showcases the connect between tangible and intangible heritage in Chanderi