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When the curtains go up on the first edition of the four-day international contemporary dance festival, Movement Festival of Kerala (MFOK), on November 27, at the Kerala Fine Arts Hall, it would be the fruition of a dream for dancers/choreographers Sreejith P, Paris Laxmi and Abhilash VS to create a space for contemporary dance in…
The dusty, blue doors of KVJ Warehouse in Mattancherry open into a cool, dark, many-pillared space beyond which is a high-ceilinged warehouse. The coolness inside, accompanied by some dankness, is a welcome change from the heat outside on Bazaar Road. This is one of the venues of the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which opens on December…
Questions also remain about how a public asset such as an international stadium could be handed over to a private company without following due process Source link
The story of how I watchedDilwale Dulhania Le Jayengeat Maratha Mandir begins with the soft appams that Kunjappan chettan sold in his teashop near our house in Mazhuvannur, Muvattupuzha. Each time my mother sent me to the local shop, I would buy these soft, cloud-like appams, which cost ₹1, with the change I had left….
From the outside, Lovely Nursery in Kadavanthra, Kochi, looks like just another plant nursery with its neat rows of greens and flowers. But the action is at the far end of the nursery, under a makeshift shed covered by blue tarpaulin. Tapan Kumar Jena, a septuagenarian idol-maker from Digha in West Bengal, is shaping and…
The retrospective of the 50 years of artist Sudhir Patwardhan’s works, Cities: Built, Broken – 50 Years of Picturing Life in the City is a journey through the artist’s oeuvre, of finding himself from his 20s, when he was starting out, to the present when, as septuagenarian, he has made a space for himself at…
File picture of actor Rajesh Keshav. Source: Instagram/@iamrkunlimited Actor and anchor Rajesh Keshav, 47, is in a critical state in a hospital in Kochi, days after he was found collapsed in the bathroom of a hotel. Keshav was rushed to the hospital from the hotel, where he was attending a programme on Sunday (August 24,…
The court had earlier termed the CBFC’s revising committee seeking a change of the name ‘Janaki’ in the title and of the protagonist “a challenge to the freedom of creative expression.” Kerala High Court judge N. Nagaresh arrived at a private film studio at Padamugal near Kakkanad in Kochi, Kerala, on Saturday (July 5, 2025)…
From Yamini Mohan’s show | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT In a corner of the gallery space at Kashi Art Cafe in Fort Kochi, facing two paintings, sits a sculpture made of scrap metal, the torso of a man bent forward, as if curling inward. One can feel the weight on him, the burden could be…
A painting by VS Gaitonde | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT This weekend, for three days (from May 3 to May 4), Kochi will get to experience artworks by some of India’s compelling voices across time and tradition at Raja Varma Hall, Taj Malabar. The works of artists such as VS Gaitonde, B Prabha, Manu Parekh,…
