Christine Argillet, curator of the Pierre Argillet collection, on exhibiting Salvador Dali’s works in India and her memories of the surrealist artist
Kavan, an Ambedkarite opera that will premiere at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai on February 8 and 9, is an exercise in testing democracy in a creative space
The setae are bendy and ultra-flexible, allowing them to follow and stick to the contours of the surface they are on — no matter how infinitesimal they are.
Music was my oxygen. For 42 years, it was the pulse of my existence, the rhythm of my being. I lived inside its intricacies, its ragas and talas, its rises and falls. And then, one day, the silence turned against me.
Shahid Kapoor speaks to Jyoti Sharma Bawa on his new film Deva, putting art in cinema, growing up in Delhi and starting his career early.
The India Art Fair promises to engage collectors and art lovers with myriad exhibitions across the NCR and beyond
When crabs, snails, plants and birds come out to play
The passport defines the relationship between citizens and their government but it is also a chronicler of how far we have travelled and the evolution of our identities
The Kinnar Akhada at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj is where the third sex finds acceptance and a collective spirituality, making it a platform for queer rights and a confluence of ideas
It is about smiling at the cosmic insignificance of our own existence and yet having fun while we can
In the end, it is not the fighting that makes us stronger; it is the surrender. It is the willingness to sit with our pain, to embrace our fears, to let the monsters in our minds have their say without letting them consume us
In the just-released Netflix docu-series, The Roshans, Hrithik talks of being “extremely shy” and having a “debilitating stutter”. He mentions how having “two thumbs” further put him in the bracket of not being normal. However, once he realised that there was “something” in him, he dreamt of being an actor with the desire to be “seen and validated”
Actor Adil Hussain speaks to Shubhra Gupta on cinema in a pre-digital world, democratisation of filmmaking and why this is the best time for actors
He sings virtually non-stop from say, 5 am to sometimes as late as 9 am, by which time the sun is high and getting hot. And no, sensibly he does not indulge in the sort of leaping and prancing hijinks that many pop singers do
At SCREEN Live, actor Kartik Aaryan talked about the success of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, being an outsider, rising entourage costs, and how the attack on Saif Ali Khan has made actors feel vulnerable. The conversation was moderated by Jyoti Sharma Bawa.
Abhilash Pillai, one of the country's foremost theatre directors and teachers, has created a play that returns to his first love, circus. Based on the myth of samudra manthan, the play casts different gods in modern contexts and looks as what we mean by asura and why the environment is important
Artist Jayasri Burman on the mythological character she admires most, and how her painted lehenga for Radhika Merchant Ambani will be her first and last
From climbing trees to ripping prey, from scuttling up tree trunks to using feet as hands, evolutionary engineering is at work in Nature
Vivek Oberoi, who splits his time between acting and business, on not receiving offers after the success of Shootout At Lokhandwala, and his upcoming sex comedy Masti 4.
India’s only two-Michelin-starred woman chef, Garima Arora on launching Banng, why discipline wins over passion and why ten lifetimes aren't enough to understand Indian food
Three decades after Peter Brook took The Mahabharata to world audiences, a restored version of the film is bringing the magic to the screen
Life is an echo chamber, what we send out returns to us amplified. We can cling to the bad or make space for the good
From Bhasa to KN Panikkar, Ratan Thiyam, Dharamvir Bharti, Mahasweta Devi and Girish Karnad playwrights and theatre directors have, over generations, revisited the Mahabharata
MT had a hold on the ordinary Malayali’s imagination that has few parallels, having moulded it for over half a century in his role as a popular storyteller.
Black Warrant, streaming on Netflix, explores the fascinating, complex and dark world of Tihar Jail, one of India’s high-profile prisons that’s often hidden from public view.



