The late Tarla Dalal’s cookbooks have been an essential ingredient of our national culinary memory and a rite of passage for the pre-internet generation. In this tribute, Nidhi Dugar Kundalia reminisces about gravitating to, and retreating from the influence of
Sunoj D, with his Masters in Print Making, enjoys exploring the dynamics between individual and the group identity in the socio-political settings. His recent work is inspired by his move from a village to a city, from a house surrounded by paddy fields
And this time around, we give you a peek into what the Turner Prize awardees put up on those pedestals this year. Presenting a review of Turner Prize 2013 for visual arts- By Aileen Blaney. ‘But is it art?’
Much of the media attention on Miley Cyrus’s“twerking” episode has revolved around the criticism – and, in turn, the defence – of “sluttiness”, but Saswat Pattanayak spotlights a deeper but largely overlooked problem: the objectification of black women and appropriation
There has been a recent flurry of media campaigns to reconceive masculinity in terms of “real men” as protectors of women rather than assailants.. but this only perpetuates the culture of gender violence by glorifying patriarchal notions of men being
What follows are a series of thoughts that come to my mind when I think through the word ‘fashion’ at this point in time. These are thoughts that are not connected with each other. These are thoughts that coexist in
Fashion is the construction of an object-sign-image designed to provoke the desire of consumption and conformity. Fashion is about appearance. Fashion is pretence. Fashion is experimentation. Fashion is creative. Fashion is the commodification of a world-view. Fashion is an industry.
The conflicting relations that we share with what we call home… what constricts us, what we escape and what we yearn for and then the changing contours of urban topography. From the town to the city. …Times lose no
A recent news report says that India has lost 20 percent of its languages. Is it our collective apathy or a pregiven in a globalised world? Yet this very world is throwing up new dimensions of communication, interpersonal engagements and
It was the high priest of Hindu revivalism in the late nineteenth century, Vivekananda, who, however, in a rare outburst of critical honesty, wrote: “We are neither Vedantists, most of us now, nor Pauranics nor Tantrics. We are just ‘Don’t-touchists’… Our God