New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- The water is no longer the same in Ajrakhpur, rues Khalid Amin Khatri. It's a lament you'd hear anywhere in the country due to dropping groundwater levels and rising salinity, bu... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Aditya Saikia, an award-winning mukha shilpakar, or mask maker, laments how unpredictable the weather is. "Kabhi bhi tez dhoop ho jaati hai, aur kabhi bhi tez baarish. (It gets v... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- "Oh! You are an arts student!" Neighbours and relatives would wrinkle their noses as if the very idea of humanities threw up a stink. At a time when my cousins were charting out ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- At Museo Camera, Gurugram, you come across an image of a lean boy, sporting chappals, captured in the act of having kicked a ball. The ball is nowhere to be seen, but his stance ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- On photographer Taha Ahmad's website, three-four geopolitical maps of the Indian subcontinent appear. They feature scribbles by schoolchildren of Preet Nagar, a village in Punjab... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- There is a certain tactility to the Rhythm of Life series on view at Art Explore, New Delhi. In these abstract works, part of designer and visual artist Harpreet Narula's first so... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Walking through Second Nature presents a bit of a paradox. From solidified light and dissolving landscapes to imagery that changes with real-time weather data, there is evidence o... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- A s you walk through the exhibition, Princes & People of India: Portraits by Emily Eden at DAG, New Delhi, it feels as if the sights and sounds of 19th-century India are coming to... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- In 2020, an image of a woman wearing a tricolour hijab with poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz's words, Bol ke labh azaad hai tere, on her lips became synonymous with the agitation against the... Read More
New Delhi, July 18 -- More often than not, when you start exploring a culture's culinary identity, one of the first things you should look at is its ferments. The sharp funk of Korean kimchi, the umam... Read More