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A few sculptures and paintings on display | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Indian art and artifacts take centre stage at Itihaus, a online platform launched by Hyderabad-based Suman Kakumani as a tribute to fine art and collectibles. Fresh from curating a two-day display at the World Experience Centre in Jubilee Hills, Suman is now gearing…
Microsoft has cancelled the Perfect Dark reboot and shut down its first-party studio The Initiative as part of widespread layoffs across the company that have hit the Xbox division hard. The latest round of cuts has also impacted Bristish developer Rare, whose action-adventure title Everwild has also been cancelled. The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax…
Artist Balan Nambiar’s home in Bengaluru | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Located a few lanes within Jayamahal Extension, is artist Balan Nambiar’s home studio. Sunlight sweeps in through the long windows and hits the framed glass paintings on the walls as Balan passes around freshly cut watermelon pieces to the group assembled in his living…
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,…
A young Rajinikanth clad in a white vest, is halfway through an expressive rebuke — perhaps some expletives are also involved. Behind him, is a towering Kamal Hassan mid-smoke, the eerie consternation on his face befitting a ruthless serial killer. Emerging from between Parattaiyan in 16 Vayadhinile and Dileep from Sigappu Rojakkal, are a couple of women hand…
Indian music has a wealth of genres that have evolved and developed over the centuries. These forms have witnessed the socio-historical influences that augmented their growth and variety. During a Hindustani classical music concert, forms such as tarana, tappa, trivat and chaturang are often rendered after the detailed treatment of the main raga with a…
Divya Hoskere performing at The Music Academy’s 2025 dance festival | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani Divya Hoskere is a young Bharatanatyam dancer and academician. A disciple of P. Praveen Kumar, she is a PhD scholar at the School of Humanities at NIAS. Her broad area of research includes the study of the Natyashastra, Indian aesthetics…
Titled Imprint, the display can be broadly categorised into the paper and book projects Curator and gallerist Sharan Apparao has an ‘unhealthy’ obsession with paper. She has travelled as far as Europe in search of the odd, rare, haphazardly scribbled sketchbook, an unexpectedly beautiful pop up book, or simply a clipboard of stray sheets of…
Thomas Vo Van Tao performing with other dancers at the 2023 edition of ‘Sougandhika Lasyalahari’, organised by Sougandhika Centre for Mohiniyattam, featuring the disciples of Neena Prasad | Photo Credit: Haree Fotografie Thomas Vo Van Tao, known for his expressive abhinaya is a rare male Mohiniyattam exponent from France. After learning Bharatanatyam for 10 years,…
