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READING THE FILM BALA GANDHARVA – Aparna Roy BaligaBala Gandharva is a Marathi movie directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai. This film is based on the life and times of the thespian Narayan Sripad Rajhans who was given the name Bala…
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FEAR OF THE ‘ OTHER URBAN’ MUMBAI, MIGRATION AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS OF KANNADA FILMS: H.A. Anil KumarMumbai: As a Den-set, Villain and City of Travel: Mumbai is popularly known as a city-of-migrants. Often aggressive politics considers it…
International
MANIA AKBARI – THE DISTILLATION OF REALITYThere is on occasion an opportunity for a conversation that challenges you to the core, a situation that unsettles you as much as it enlightens your imagination, and this was one such occasion. Beginning…
Photo Essay
It’s not every day you see a girl with pink hair, rabbit ears and a pair of random foam dice dangling from the sides of her head wandering around outside in the rain with an acoustic guitar she never intends…
COVER STORY
Sanjay Bhattacharya the artist? Yes all of us know him. Sanjay Bhattacharya the poet? Intriguing!!Bengali poetry that fl its and forms the clouds of fantasy, that when recited by the artist himself brings back memories of the famed Uttam Kumar…
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LONGINGS OF THE EARTH UNDERSTANDING THE ARTISTIC PRACTICE OF DHANESHWAR SHAHThrough the nineties, contemporary India and its art have become increasingly urban centric. Locked in this myopia of an urban gaze, there has been a movement away from engaging with…
COVER STORY
Th e first painting of the Assam Toil series by Raj Kumar Mazinder was an acrylic on canvas of the same title, which was done in 2004. I saw this painting much later. Th e fi rst work that had…
COVER STORY
DUET OF SELF AND CIRCUMSTANCEAn examination of art works could do with a look at the nature of the self that creates them. Aft er all self and environment, and self and art are inextricably meshed. In other words, artistic…
INTERNATIONAL
SHUMON AHMED, HOME LAND Photographer Shumon Ahmed lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country plagued by extreme weather conditions but equally resourced by fertile land. Since a boy, Ahmed has watched his mother country become something all its own….
ART & THEATRE
AFTERGLOW: PERFORMANCE ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Th e title of this article does not call for a historical survey of the relationship between photography and performance art. Neither is my intention to pretend to worry about the complexity of the relation…
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
INDIA ART FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE OVER 500 ARTISTS & 40 ART GALLERIES —————————- THE BIGGEST ART FESTIVAL STARTS IN MUMBAI NEXT MONTH AT MMRDA GROUND, BANDRA-KURLA COMPLEX. ————————— India Art Festival, a modern and contemporary art fair, starting from 28…
