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For one night in Chennai, the long arc of a decade-old art festival quietly found its way into a hotel ballroom. There were no banners, no festival frenzy, just an art enthused crowd filtering into THE Park Chennai, curious about why Goa’s biggest annual multi-disciplinary arts gathering, the Serendipity Arts Festival, had chosen to make…
What if children are empowered to take on the mantle of teachers, and adults are at the receiving end of knowledge transfer. What if children school their elders in the grammar of conscious living. What if children are conversant with the idioms of sustainability, source discards and transform them into desirable, eco-friendly, everyday utilitarian objects…
Some members of a seniors’ group that congregates every evening at the GCC park on Bhagat Singh Road Park in Thiruvalluvar Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur. | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK Often, we return to things we realise we have left for good. The reason for revisiting or doing those things all over again might be different, but…
Members of Chennai Toastmasters Club at their 975th meeting | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Toastmasters meet every Sunday with their respective club members. Today, Chennai Toastmasters Club (CTM) would also be meeting up as usual, but there would be something not so usual about the meeting; it is something hugely unusual. For it is not…
Sudarshan Pattnaik’s show at Lalit Kala Akademi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Life is like sand. You can hold it in your hand, but it slips away. I believe that we must leave something behind that lasts and makes an impression, and paintings are my my way of doing that,” says Sudarshan Pattnaik, renowned sand…
K. Nagamalai, an artist, sketching portraits at Pondy Bazaar | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Strings of green, golden yellow, and tart red lights dangle from the trees of Pondy Bazaar in Chennai. A handful of artists sit beneath their glow, with their heads bent down and eyes fixed not on the swarming crowd, but…
Surej Salim | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Surej Salim, Co-Founder and COO, Digitally Inspired Media, has been elected as the president of the Advertising Club of Madras for 2025-26 at the annual general meeting held on October 24, 2025. An official release said that Mr. Salim has previously served as the Secretary of the Club…
Police deployed outside the Madras Race Club in Guindy in September 2024 | Photo Credit: R. Ragu Justice S.M. Subramaniam of the Madras High Court has refused to recuse from hearing an appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu government against Madras Race Club (MRC) though he had passed adverse orders against the club in another…
Fragments of a Horizon: Watercolours by Ganesh Haloi | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Step into Artworld Sarala’s Art Centre, and you are greeted with a quiet swirl of colours— lines of varying shapes and sizes that seem to breathe, pause and shift like memories. Look closer, and you see delicate fish emerge in some, peeking…
About 60-odd years ago, Prabhu G Dorairaj, founder-conductor of the Lutheran Men’s Voice (LMV) began his musical journey as a treble in his church choir, the Adaikalanathar Lutheran Church located on the bustling Tana Street in Purasaiwalkam. At 24, he along with friends Premkumar Immanuel, Selvaraj and D Prabakhar went across to sing as a youth group at the Tamil Methodist Church,…
