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The city surfaced in his stories. He even wrote scripts for its famous film industry and starred in some movies. Now, 100 years after Saadat Hasan Manto’s birth, Mumbai is gearing up to remember the eventful time that the legendary Urdu writer spent here. Born May 11, 1912 in Samrala, Punjab, Manto arrived in Mumbai in the 1940s and spent [...]
Sheba Chhachhi works with lens-based images, both still and moving, investigating questions of gender, ecology, violence and visual culture. Her works address the question of transformation, personal and collective memory, retrieving the marginal and the play between the mythic and the social. A long-time chronicler of the women’s movement in India, as both photographer and activist, she began developing collaborative, [...]
A Hindu temple in this small, bustling town on the outskirts of Agra is making a record of sorts with the continuous recital of the Indian epic Ramayana for the past 18 years. The Ram Hanuman temple opposite the Achnera railway station, about 25 km from Agra, has become a major centre of attraction for locals and those visiting the [...]
Book: “Johaar Kinkar: Babu Ram Singh”; Author: Gajendra Singh Pangti; Publisher: Dolka Innovations, New Delhi; Pages: 128; Price: Rs.150 Nestled in the higher Himalayas, near the Milam glacier, is Johaar valley — home to the Shaukas. Before the India-China war of 1962, the Shaukas, then numbering a mere 5,000, were engaged in Indo-Tibetan trade, a tradition dating back to the [...]
A three-day confluence of narratives, ideas, literary expositions and cultural showcases from India and Bhutan will strengthen the growing South Asian cultural solidarity in the Himalayan kingdom next month. The third edition of the Mountain Echoes festival, a literary collaboration between the India-Bhutan Foundation and Siyahi, a non-profit organisation, will open at the Tarayana Centre in Thimphu, the capital of [...]
More than 50 intellectuals have expressed “dismay over the spiralling descent into irrationality” of the West Bengal government following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s directives to libraries to subscribe to particular newspapers and the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor for posting her caricatures on internet. In a written statement, the signatories from the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) said: “We [...]
An exhibition on the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp of the Nazis opened in China’s Shanghai city Thursday. The exhibition on the concentration camp will remain on long-term display at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (SJRM), reported Xinhua citing museum curator Chen Jian. Co-organised by the SJRM and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the exhibition has a total of 30 display boards [...]
A list of Leonardo da Vinci’s “things to do”, including reminders for works like “observe a brain”, is all set to be publicly displayed at Buckingham Palace from May 4. The artist’s “to-do” list suggests it also meant to remind the Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, and anatomist to have his anatomy books bound, obtain a skull and describe a crocodile’s [...]
The Himachal Pradesh University here is starting a postgraduate course on Kangra miniature paintings to protect the dying art form, an official said here Tuesday. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has provided funds to the university’s Institute of Integrated Himalayan Studies to start the course from 2012-13, the institute’s director S.P. Bansal told IANS. He said the course has 35 [...]
Progressive artists and members of the intelligentsia have expressed outrage over the forcible closure earlier this week of an exhibition of gay photographs by noted lensman Sunil Gupta at the Alliance Francaise in the capital as part of the Francophonie Week. In a signed statement, Ram Rahman, Geeta Kapur, Vivan Sundaram and Indira Chandrasekhar of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust [...]
Late singer Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika was Thursday posthumously conferred India’s second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan by President Pratibha Patil. The other two who received the prestigious award were former Uttar Pradesh governor T.V. Rajeshwar and renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti. Among those who received the Padma Bhushan include painter Jatin Das, artist Anish Kapoor, filmmaker Mira Nair, [...]
Oxford University has broadened the purview of its relationship with India over the years, moving beyond education and publishing to collaborate on important scientific and health research projects, its vice chancellor, Andrew Hamilton, says. “We have strong and substantial research collaboration beyond academic projects. Yesterday, I visited the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where a group of physicists are collaborating [...]
The mood appears to be fluctuating in the international art market with an iconic work by 90-year-old contemporary pioneer S.H. Raza, “Village with Church”, finding no takers at a Sotheby’s auction in New York last week. Observers, curators and gallerists in India feel that “it is just a one-off disappointment”. It may have been brought on by the mood of [...]
So just what is common between three sisters from South India: Archana Sundararajan, a classical dancer fromMadurai; Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy, a graphic designer fromBangalore, and Jaya Madhavan, a writer from Chennai? The poet, Kabir. During the Kabir Festival held at Prithvi House in Mumbai last month, the trio staged a unique and thought-provoking presentation on the great poet-weaver, entitled ‘Ankath Kahani’, [...]
Assam has tied up with the Stanford University in the US for documenting the rich culture, traditional knowledge, customs and indigenous practices of various communities in the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Monday while inaugurating the Institute of Research & Documentation of Indigenous Studies (IRDIS) at the International Convention Centre of Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra here. “The institute has been [...]
Leading Indian contemporary artist S.H. Raza’s most significant work, “Village with Church”, once owned by John D. Rockefeller III, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York. It is estimated at $2 million, the auction house said ahead of the sale late Monday. Director of Sotheby’s in India, Maithili Parekh, said the oil painting on canvas in 1958 was purchased [...]
Art and fashion are like warp and weft, twined naturally into each other. A new breed of younger artists from the world over is now trying to create a contemporary visual language to express abstract narratives with symbols from popular fashion. Faseeh Salim, a Pakistani textile designer-turned artist, uses textiles, fibres, knits, embroidery and mannequins as mediums to make installations [...]
Acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial “The Satanic Verses” as also bestsellers like “Midnight’s Children” and “Shame”, Saturday denounced “disgraceful vote bank politics” being practised in the country and said “95 percent of Muslims in India are not interested in violence being done in their name”. Returning to India two months after he was stopped from attending the [...]
Art and fashion are like warp and weft, twined naturally into each other. A new breed of younger artists from the world over is now trying to create a contemporary visual language to express abstract narratives with symbols from popular fashion. Faseeh Salim, a Pakistani textile designer-turned artist, uses textiles, fibres, knits, embroidery and mannequins as mediums to make installations [...]
Acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial “The Satanic Verses” as also bestsellers like “Midnight’s Children” and “Shame”, Saturday denounced “disgraceful vote bank politics” being practised in the country and said “95 percent of Muslims in India are not interested in violence being done in their name”. Returning to India two months after he was stopped from attending the [...]
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