Venues may not be plenty in Bengaluru, but pianist Aman Mahajan is keeping the music alive. Part of the reason Aman Mahajan moved from Boston to Bengaluru in 2010 was the proliferation of venues such as BFlat (brand new back then) that were coming up in the city. Ten years later, a long-standing tussle between …
Junoon, the arts and theatre organisation, founded by Sanjna Kapoor and Sameera Iyengar, turns eight this month. Kapoor takes time out to chart its journey Photo by: YASIR IQBAL Q. What was your vision for Junoon and how has it shaped up? We wanted to see an urban landscape across India that has the arts …
When musician and activist T.M. Krishna wrote his treatise on Carnatic music years ago, he left out the place of instrument makers in its long and clamorous history. In Sebastian & Sons, he partly fills that gap by telling the story of those who make the mridangam, the percussion instrument that today anchors every Carnatic …
Uday S Kulkarni’s book is a painstakingly detailed and fulsomely illustrated account of Wales’s career in India, where he lived from July 1791 till his sudden death in November 1795. James Wales, Artist and Antiquarian in the Time of Peshwa Sawai Madhavrao One of the first records of the artist James Wales is from 1777. Aged …
By the late 18th century, Indian artists found it increasingly difficult to earn a living from the declining centres of the Mughal court or its successors. Meanwhile, they began receiving commissions from patrons affiliated to the East India Company. The art these painters created for expatriates has never received its due. As the sunset on …
Achintya Bose is the beating heart of Yeh Ballet, a sensitively directed Netflix film Manish Chauhan (left) and Achintya Bose in Yeh Ballet It doesn’t take time or dialogue for Sooni Taraporevala to get to the point in her second feature film after Little Zizou (2009). Aerial shots of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link segue into …
Actor Gulshan Devaiah likes collecting shoes but he has now started stacking up awards as well. Gulshan Devaiah If Gulshan Devaiah’s decade-long filmography is anything to go by, it’s clear he can not only follow Bollywood’s commercial formula (Hate Story, Goliyon ki Raasleela, Ramleela and Commando 3), but can also do justice to its indie …
That the title of Lilly Singh’s show sounds like a pun is no coincidence. Last year, Singh became the first Indian-origin, openly bisexual woman of colour to host a late night talk show, titled A Little Late with Lilly Singh. “The double meaning was on purpose,” says Singh, the show airs at 1.35 am in …
Back in November, the government’s decision to revoke writer Aatish Taseer’s Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card caused a brief media kerfuffle. Taseer, a prominent writer, is the son of veteran columnist and Lutyens insider Tavleen Singh and Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, a former governor of Punjab whose criticism of his country’s blasphemy laws precipitated …
Smog meanders through the pages of Deepa Anappara’s moving debut novel; an oppressive presence, like one of the malevolent djinns that nine-year-old Jai worries might be behind a series of child snatchings in his basti-the last stop of a metro line in the book’s nameless fictional analogue of Delhi. Smog and djinns are just part …
