“Man is born with his hands clenched; he dies with his hands wide open.” ~ The Talmud Feral children use their hands for movement. This is one of the things that defines feral children inHumanimal: A Project for Future
She did give a stellar performance in The Queen but for me, Hellen Mirren is still the sassy Georgina of The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover. So when I see her walk down the red carpet for the Baftas, with
“I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell
“Indian people are very emotional, no?” The young Iranian man sitting next to me, quizzed. I looked at him bemused, not quite sure what he meant. Discovering two girls from India occupying the seats next to his, on the flight
I cannot recall when I was first introduced to Prabhuddha Dasgupta’s work. I started photography quite late in my life, but a significant time of my early days went in savoring the visuals, spread in film, fashion and art related
Travelling up the Red River in Vietnam, I reached Hanoi one very sunny summer day. It had been a long journey that began in Bangkok, and took me to places including Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, then to Siem
Over two decades have passed since the first issue of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ was first published by Vertigo, and proceeded to take the comic world by storm. At the recent San Diego Comic Con, the ace comic writer has
At the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia, I waited for flight VN818 to Saigon; ‘Homeward Bound’ by Simon & Garfunkel, playing on my headphones and I was reading ‘The Lost Steps’ by Alejo Carpentier. Light slanted on the granite tiles
When folk music maestro, Saakar Khan Manganiar, the most renowned Khamaicha player, alive today, puts his nails under the strings of his musical instrument, the music comes like the cold showers in the dry deserts of Rajasthan. It melts in
There is an entire generation that has grown up and is practicing adulthood through the decade of the late 90s and the 2000s. At least in the urban cosmopolitan pockets of India (the pockets in which ‘contemporary Indian art’ largely