Benita Fernando

Artist Orijit Sen on his new comics magazine and on creating and posting visual satires on social media

Dr Vishakha Shivdasani's new e-book looks at how to reduce inflammation and improve immunity

At a time of deep uncertainty, the milestones that mark the life of a young adult have gone missing

Inside India’s first blockchain-powered platform, solely dedicated to South Asian artists and art sales

Many of these services were already supplying meals to quarantining families.

Artist Shambhavi Singh on MoMA’s and KNMA’s acquisitions of her works and welding memories of her homeland Bihar in her art.

In the last decade, Menezes was best known as the in-house pianist at Palladium, a mall in Lower Parel. He would play there on weekdays, impeccably dressed in a suit, filling the atrium with his notes, providing rich background music to even the most ordinary shopping experience.

A trained social worker, Fatma Zakaria worked extensively in the field of education, for which she was awarded a Padma Shri in 2006.

Football legend’s portrait replaces existing murals of Madhubala and Anarkali in Bandra.

Media producer and former Rajya Sabha member Pritish Nandy, who was associated with Dharker since his journalism years, said, “Anil reinforced the role of the editors in our time.”

Anil Dharker worked as an editor across several publications, of different genres, starting with the Debonair, then Mid-day, The Independent, and the Illustrated Weekly of India.

The photographs are sequenced across a mixed bag of themes. Sometimes it’s an emotion or a memory; at other times, they are parts of the city or their urban aesthetic.

The exhibition will have six thematic galleries, each with a set of connected exhibitions and curatorial notes, many of which will be available in Marathi as well.

For now, as social media users make Mesmeraki’s illustration go viral, it’s worth noting that for all its imperial past, the Crown's stories are no different from its former empire’s. All it took was one sly move in a mash-up

The Bamiyan Buddhas are said to date back to the 5th century AD and were once the tallest standing Buddhas in the world. Salsal and Shamama, as they were called by the locals, were set in niches on either ends of a cliff side and hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs.

In an email interview, the anonymous artist behind these monoliths in India, said, “The purpose of this monolith, just like the several that have cropped up around the world, is to spark a conversation about wildlife conservation.”

The Harry-Meghan interview is the latest in a line of explosive tell-alls, right from the famous 1995 one with Princess Diana. What did this interview throw up?

The anecdote is part of a biographical note on Madilgekar that features in a new encyclopaedia on Maharashtra’s visual art.

Veza, which means ‘to show/produce’ in Zulu, features more than 50 galleries from across the world, including Chemould Prescott Road, Experimenter and Jhaveri Contemporary from India

As the exercise of inoculation against the novel coronavirus infection gains momentum in the country, policymakers are also grappling with significant vaccine hesitancy. This isn’t a new experience — as a look back at the chequered history of the first vaccination efforts in colonial India shows.

As the COVID-19 inoculation gets underway in the country, a look back at the chequered history of smallpox vaccination in colonial India. What does it say about our faith in vaccines?

As a Bal Thackeray statue, the first of the late political leader in Mumbai, comes up on the island on Saturday, it has suddenly come to notice that 'Spark' has gone missing again — and may have been missing for months now.

Confinement, memory and migrants — artist Sudhir Patwardhan on an ongoing body of work emerging from the pandemic

Of the six youngsters, who are behind bars for more than a fortnight, one is the brother of the show's organiser who was in the audience, another a friend of Munawar Faruqui's who had nothing to do with the event, and a third whose only family is a minor brother running around for him now.