Some time back, as the month of July came to a close, two politicians from Tamil Nadu got into a fight at the Delhi airport. They were waiting to board their flight back to their home state, and their war
In his first solo exhibition in India, titled Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power, held at The Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, Samson Young from Hong Kong, explores the notions of margins and centres in paper works, videos and a durational performance.
The first time I chanced upon the Prisma watermark on an acquaintance’s display photo on Facebook I was far from impressed, dismissing it as another of those fads doing the rounds on social media that redoes one’s photo in sketch
The study of Bollywood has been around questions of spectatorship, the changing ideas of morality and censorship and studies in sexuality. This article is no different but it takes up a trilogy which sort of bridges two decades of film
It is a cold, cold summer night where I am typing this, in a centrally heated room in central London. I am neighbours with the Queen here, though I haven’t of course seen her waving by. My feet are cold.
“Wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone without ever extending to the crowning moment of a result.” —Roland Barthes,
As a kid right out of high school, I became a sworn fan of America and everything related to it. I loved its food, its geography, and most importantly, I believed in the cultural topographies that spoke of a certain
Is he for real? This is the question I keep on asking myself as I watch and re-watch the videos of Pakistani YouTube sensation Taher Shah, and pore over his website. Perhaps you’ve already forgotten Shah; the viral fever he
How did you come across Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and decide that you wanted to work on illustrating the cities written in the book? Tell us a little about this project in detail. It’s a long story, but I’ll do
At a juncture where a multiplicity of visions, knowledge and information provide a daunting combination of idealism and pragmatism, the “order of existence” as manifest in “religion” puts one in a quandary. On one hand, it seems like a nebulous