From Raneri, a small village near Jodhpur, Lakha Khan is among a handful of musicians who still play the rare instrument

The new dastan from the team of Dastangoi Collective, titled Dastan Shaheed e azam Bhagat Singh ki, has been written by dastango Ainee Farooqui, who will perform it with Nusrat Ansari.

Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s debut feature, which finds a vulnerable fishing community at the centre of a tussle between climate-change impact and religious conservatism, won NETPAC Best Film award at Kolkata International Film Festival and is nominated for the Ingmar Bergman award

The book looks at how the business grew into a multi-billion-dollar company and redefined India’s e-commerce

Folk-reggae band Oorali are getting painters, musicians and actors, to bring their art material aboard the Kerala Express as they take a train journey from Thrissur to Delhi and prepare for impromptu sessions

In the wake of a celebrity suicide last year, a pandemic that toyed with people’s sanity in lockdown, and Indian denial of mental illness, Onkar Diwadkar’s short film, screened at KIFF and IFFI, is relevant

I Am Kalam director Nila Madhab Panda extends his decade-long work around effects of climate change from documentaries and Hindi films to his first Odia feature, screened at the ongoing IFFI’s Indian Panorama section

Director Ankit Kothari recounts his journey of finding the perfect location and cast for Paanchika, which opened the Indian Panorama (Non-Feature) segment of IFFI

British barrister Marina Wheeler on documenting her mother’s life in The Lost Homestead, writing about India’s independence and the Partition, and nature of memories

The second Nabaneeta Dev Sen Memorial Lecture was a tribute to the multi-faceted genius of the eminent writer, academic, poet and feminist thinker

In the film, Malaika Vaz and Nitye Sood follow the illegal trade pipeline from fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean to the Indo-Myanmar border and finally in the wildlife trafficking hubs of Hong Kong and Guangzhou in China

Here’s a look at 2020, through all the food that we cooked and ate, and the dishes we bonded and fought over

Ten architects and designers who left behind legacies of simplicity, regional context, creative communities and a system of values that have been forgotten

From National Theatre in the UK to the Bolshoi Theater in Russia, some of the greatest arts institutions began to stream recordings of their classic shows online, mostly free, for audiences across the globe.

In 2020, as art became more distant, it also came closer through digital mediums

Shillong Chamber Choir’s new album that has hymns and carols in Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, Aramaic and Khasi nudges us to look to the desert where Christ was born

Between lockdowns and slow business, sex workers may be compelled to push the next generation into the trade

Domino’s India joins global fast-food chains in the plant-based meat movement with its new pizza

Hosted by Woodstock School’s Hanifl Centre for Outdoor Education and Environmental Study, this year the festival will be held in the virtual space due to the pandemic. Two sessions will air on the centre’s YouTube channel on December 7, 8 and 9, starting at 8 pm

The fourth comic in the Priya’s Shakti series, Priya’s Mask, releases today along with a short film – with voice-overs by Rosanna Arquette, Vidya Balan and Mrunal Thakur – premiering at the ongoing Global Health Film Festival in London

The annual Urban Lens Film Festival, organised by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, presents a week-long exploration into landscapes of the city and the mind

A week-long festival inaugurates the virtual opening of Bengaluru-based Museum of Art & Photography, showing how varied art forms are interconnected and enrich each other

Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation, about their ‘POWER’ project that focuses on decentralised ownership for artisans and preparing them to market their handmade products on global platforms

Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra with the Franco-Rwandan musician-writer will release online a Hindi translation of Faye’s debut Petit pays, followed by the India premiere of Éric Barbier’s filmic adaptation Small Country.