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Watching Modern Love, an eight-episode anthology series based on the popular New York Times weekly column, is a disorienting experience. How is it possible to be both enlightened and disappointed at once? I detested and devoured the eight episodes in less than a day. I hated that I liked these self-satisfied little New York vignettes […]
“India mein museum kaun jata hai? (who goes to a museum in India),” asks a public awareness initiative, #chalomuseum, rolled out by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art last year. Not many, despite having over 170 museums across the country. We’d rather plan visits to the Louvre, the MET or the Guggenheim. But that is […]
This is such a clever, funny, inventive movie! A sequel to Shaun the Sheep Movie, (2015), this stop-motion animation film has all the magic of the eponymous television show it is based on. On Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun and his flock are up to their old tricks much to the irritation of the sheepdog, Bitzer, […]
She was the youngest member of Group 8, a Delhi collective of printmakers that her professor and printmaker Jagmohan Chopra brought together back in 1968. Today, 75-year-old Delhi-based Anupam Sud, has her works showing in the United States, in a retrospective hosted at the Delhi-based DAG’s New York gallery. Her last major showing, called Anupam […]
Ranga Shankara, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, is hosting special performances every month including presentation of rare art forms. “We have one special theatrical experience every month, and these few showcase the full range of an art form,” says S Surendranath, the Artistic Director of Ranga Shankara. On January 26, Ranga Shankara […]
Residents of Godoli village in Satara district, who claim that Maratha soldier Tanaji Malusare was born there, are unhappy over the place not finding a mention in the Hindi film Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, which documents the valour of the 17th century military leader. The residents have decided to raise the issue during their village […]
All India Forward Bloc architect Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his equally illustrious elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose have been the subjects of two successively released books in recent years, namely Sisir Kumar Bose’s Subhas and Sarat: An Intimate Memoir of the Bose Brothers, and Madhuri Bose’s The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence. While historian […]
Kabir Khan is all set to go back to the future. At the very start of his career, way back in 1999, he had made a much celebrated documentary, called The Forgotten Army, on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army (INA), also known as Azad Hind Fauj, that had played a key role in […]
Growing up in a small town in Rio Grande, Brazil, Jim Porto was surrounded by music. His family couldn’t afford a piano, and he decided to learn on his own at a neighbour’s place. Bossa nova, meaning new wave, was the latest fad, blending traditional Brazilian samba sounds with American jazz. Porto’s passion for bossa […]
Walk into Arzan Khambatta’s Sewri studio and you are surrounded by the artist and sculptor’s work – some complete and some works in progress. Khambatta tells us that he has a rule: he needs to see everything that he has ever created or is in the process of making, no object is unwanted and nothing […]