Arts & Culture
Salil Tripathi

Banglophilia

In the age of cultural insularity, Salil Tripathi reminisces about his love for another language, another culture and simply another way of living … What unfolds is a story of journeys through books, streets and memories seeped in Bangaliana …

Arts & Culture
Sayan Bhattacharya

Stories in a frame

Shahidul Alam is one photographer who needs no introduction. This photographer from Bangladesh has shown at major international galleries, has judged the World Press Photo competition, been a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and so on. But through all

Arts & Culture
Oscar Guardiola

Latin America’s comeback and the feathered thing called Hope

The coming back of the Amerindians,the struggle for liberation in Latin America and the way in which human action influences the geological balance of the world has transformed the definitions of capital, property and state. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera comes up with

Arts & Culture
Geraldine Rose

The Threat of a Good Example

Geraldine Rose recounts her days in Nicaragua, January, 1988 and unfolds the revolution which can be “the threat of a good example” to the US. “It is normal for the state to regard the domestic population as a major enemy, who

Art and the Public
Samudra Kajal Saikia

Interactivity in Recent Art and Cultural Practice

Interactivity has come up as a major apparatus for contemporary art practices in recent years. As the term interactive or interactivity could be understood in different ways, the enforcing factors behind the developing interest in interactive artistic practice also could

Arts & Culture
Deepa Bhasthi

Stories From The Road

A road trip often includes experiences that become unforgettable memories, which stay with us long after the trip is over. Deepa Bhasthi recounts a few such memories from a recent road trip to Tamil Nadu…  My favourite photograph from that

Arts & Culture
Rini Barman

Memories of river mermaids and monsoons in Assamese poetry

The water imagery in Assam has often signified blood in the accounts of mainstream media. Rini Barman brings to you another side of the story  … “Dikhowr bukute seuji majuli Rodot misikiyaai haahe- O’Senai o” At the heart of Dikhow,

Arts & Culture
Deepa Bhasthi

ON U.R. Ananthamurthy, Gabo and others who died …

The legacy of those famous personalities who have left us is not just that of sweet remembrance of their contribution to our lives. It is also about “perceived kinship”, humanity and a lot more … Deepa Bhasthi talks about the

Arts & Culture
Udayan Dhar

The Cinematic Soldier

On maverick Bangladeshi film-maker Tareque Masud’s third death anniversary, Udayan Dhar looks back at the man and the inspirations that provided film lovers across the world with some of the best works of contemporary Bengali cinema. Tareque during the shoot