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Conversations with K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016): Artist, Teacher, Visionary

Conversations with K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016): Artist, Teacher, Visionary

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Earth Stride and other poems by Anu Majumdar

Earth Stride and other poems by Anu Majumdar

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Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, Within, Without: The politic of the paintbrush

Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, Within, Without: The politic of the paintbrush

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Arjun Rathi teams up with Grant Garmezy for glasswork inspired by Indian motifs, symbols

Arjun Rathi teams up with Grant Garmezy for glasswork inspired by Indian motifs, symbols

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Tanvi Kumar interview: How tears shaped NY-based graphic designer-artist’s new project

Tanvi Kumar interview: How tears shaped NY-based graphic designer-artist’s new project

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How Rooftop is modernising the traditional Indian art scene

How Rooftop is modernising the traditional Indian art scene

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Movie review: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — a necessary, breath-taking perspective on a horrific tragedy

Movie review: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — a necessary, breath-taking perspective on a horrific tragedy

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Pop art interior design: A vibrant fusion of colour, iconography, and everyday art

Pop art interior design: A vibrant fusion of colour, iconography, and everyday art

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Missing Piece/Peace: New photo exhibition, curated by Georgina Maddox, goes beyond the obvious, says the unsayable

Missing Piece/Peace: New photo exhibition, curated by Georgina Maddox, goes beyond the obvious, says the unsayable

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Exploring the texture of memory: Artist Smita Jain on her solo show, ‘Past & Beyond’

Exploring the texture of memory: Artist Smita Jain on her solo show, ‘Past & Beyond’

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Nature’s beauty, its raw charm come to life in self-taught artist Sushma Mahajan’s solo show

Nature’s beauty, its raw charm come to life in self-taught artist Sushma Mahajan’s solo show

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The Poetry Issue 2023: Don’t Worry and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2023: Don’t Worry and other poems

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The Poetry Issue 2023: Unleaving the City — Five Poems

The Poetry Issue 2023: Unleaving the City — Five Poems

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Spaces Between Words: The Unfestival, Season 3 — Stories from Ratnagiri

Spaces Between Words: The Unfestival, Season 3 — Stories from Ratnagiri

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Amitava Kumar: ‘Good writing grows out of serious noticing’

Amitava Kumar: ‘Good writing grows out of serious noticing’

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‘Threading the Horizon’: KHOJ's new show spotlights everydayness of gender-based violence

‘Threading the Horizon’: KHOJ's new show spotlights everydayness of gender-based violence

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Deveshi Goswami: ‘My creative process starts with an abundance of colours on canvas’

Deveshi Goswami: ‘My creative process starts with an abundance of colours on canvas’

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Fragments of Longing and other poems

Fragments of Longing and other poems

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‘The Ink Black Heart’: Robert Galbraith’s new-age locked room mystery

‘The Ink Black Heart’: Robert Galbraith’s new-age locked room mystery

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Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize: Second iteration to include artists from India, Greater China

Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize: Second iteration to include artists from India, Greater China

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India’s creative industries: Stories of challenge and resilience

India’s creative industries: Stories of challenge and resilience

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MASH Young Artist Award: Ten emerging artists to watch out for

MASH Young Artist Award: Ten emerging artists to watch out for

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Indrapramit Roy: The Solitude of Thoughts and Colours

Indrapramit Roy: The Solitude of Thoughts and Colours

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The Quorum Club steps into art world, with Art Alive Gallery

The Quorum Club steps into art world, with Art Alive Gallery

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How Greater Than, India’s First Craft Gin, Got Five Artists To Reimagine William’s Hogarth’s Gin Lane

How Greater Than, India’s First Craft Gin, Got Five Artists To Reimagine William’s Hogarth’s Gin Lane

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Mahmood Farooqui: ‘The future of dastangoi is really bright’

Mahmood Farooqui: ‘The future of dastangoi is really bright’

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Priya Hajela: ‘Ladies’ Tailor is a story of rebuilding life in the tumultuous backdrop of Partition’

Priya Hajela: ‘Ladies’ Tailor is a story of rebuilding life in the tumultuous backdrop of Partition’

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Meera Mukherjee: The Modern Sculptor Who Lent Elegance To The Tales of Ordinary People

Meera Mukherjee: The Modern Sculptor Who Lent Elegance To The Tales of Ordinary People

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Hello! India Set To Host Its Inaugural Art Awards

Hello! India Set To Host Its Inaugural Art Awards

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Rahul Kumar on his practice as a ceramic artist and curator

Rahul Kumar on his practice as a ceramic artist and curator

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India Art Fair Director Jaya Asokan on Building Bridges Across Fields

India Art Fair Director Jaya Asokan on Building Bridges Across Fields

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The Train to Varanasi

The Train to Varanasi

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Ganga Arti and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2022: Ganga Arti and other poems

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Lockdown Birding and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2022: Lockdown Birding and other poems

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Letters to the Forgotten Ancestor

The Poetry Issue 2022: Letters to the Forgotten Ancestor

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The Poetry Issue 2022: Cosmocolossus and other poems

The Poetry Issue 2022: Cosmocolossus and other poems

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Review of Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, ‘A Ringside View’

Review of Ranjan Kaul’s solo show, ‘A Ringside View’

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Ritu Menon on the Life and Times of Zohra Segal

Ritu Menon on the Life and Times of Zohra Segal

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I Searched for You and other poems

I Searched for You and other poems

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The Art of Dumpling: A Pan-Asian Fine Dining Destination in the Heart of Delhi

The Art of Dumpling: A Pan-Asian Fine Dining Destination in the Heart of Delhi

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The Gulammohammed Sheikh Interview: Portrait of An Artist

The Gulammohammed Sheikh Interview: Portrait of An Artist

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Open Call for Rs 25 million grants: Jonathan Kennedy, Director Arts  India at British Council, on ‘India-UK Together 2022 Programme’

Open Call for Rs 25 million grants: Jonathan Kennedy, Director Arts India at British Council, on ‘India-UK Together 2022 Programme’

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Artist Karen Knorr donates major works to the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru

Artist Karen Knorr donates major works to the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru

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 Indians think arts and culture are essential, but rarely make time for them: Research

Indians think arts and culture are essential, but rarely make time for them: Research

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‘The only way out is the way in’: Stephen Apkon on Disturbing  the Peace, a documentary about and beyond the Israel-Palestine conflict

‘The only way out is the way in’: Stephen Apkon on Disturbing the Peace, a documentary about and beyond the Israel-Palestine conflict

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Anuradha Roy: ‘Novels start as ideas, images, moments of finding connections’

Anuradha Roy: ‘Novels start as ideas, images, moments of finding connections’

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Languages Of Truth: Rushdie’s “Noah’s Ark” For Art

Languages Of Truth: Rushdie’s “Noah’s Ark” For Art

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Fidelities, In Time and other poems

Fidelities, In Time and other poems

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The Other Side and other poems

The Other Side and other poems

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The Scent of an Indian and other poems

The Scent of an Indian and other poems

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World Heritage Day: How Mumbai Got Its Third World Heritage Site Tag

World Heritage Day: How Mumbai Got Its Third World Heritage Site Tag

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Alka Joshi: My Hero’s (or Harrowing) Journey to Publication

Alka Joshi: My Hero’s (or Harrowing) Journey to Publication

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Bindu Subramaniam: My Journey Summed Up in Three Life Lessons

Bindu Subramaniam: My Journey Summed Up in Three Life Lessons

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Reshmi Dey: A Woman is Like Glass —  Born Out of Fire, Fragile yet Strong

Reshmi Dey: A Woman is Like Glass — Born Out of Fire, Fragile yet Strong

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Smita Bharti: In Search of the Seed

Smita Bharti: In Search of the Seed

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Hemi Bawa: ‘When I conceptualise a sculpture, it speaks to me’

Hemi Bawa: ‘When I conceptualise a sculpture, it speaks to me’

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Politics of Sexual Identity: How Contemporary Indian Literature Dispels Any Need For Differentiation

Politics of Sexual Identity: How Contemporary Indian Literature Dispels Any Need For Differentiation

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Mandira Lamba on her art ventures, collaborations and passion for tribal art forms

Mandira Lamba on her art ventures, collaborations and passion for tribal art forms

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CP Surendran: I Am Nearly Not Here and other new poems

CP Surendran: I Am Nearly Not Here and other new poems

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Rukmini Bhaya Nair: Cow and three new poems

Rukmini Bhaya Nair: Cow and three new poems

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Jogen Chowdhury: The Enchantment of the Everyday

Jogen Chowdhury: The Enchantment of the Everyday

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The Glass Makers’ Club: Exploring Commerce of Glass as an Art Form

The Glass Makers’ Club: Exploring Commerce of Glass as an Art Form

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The Art Platform India: A New Venture And Its Way Forward

The Art Platform India: A New Venture And Its Way Forward

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A Monsoon Reading of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet — Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer

A Monsoon Reading of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet — Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer

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Wartime CEO

Wartime CEO

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Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan’s ‘Techno Avatar’: Recovery of artistic certainties and beyond

Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan’s ‘Techno Avatar’: Recovery of artistic certainties and beyond

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Meet Five Artists Whose Works Show the Evolution of Indian Art

Meet Five Artists Whose Works Show the Evolution of Indian Art

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Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Saleem Kidwai on the Pangs of Partition in Qurratulain Hyder’s works

Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Saleem Kidwai on the Pangs of Partition in Qurratulain Hyder’s works

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Notes From the Lockdown

Notes From the Lockdown

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Shubigi Rao: The Art of Embedded Histories

Shubigi Rao: The Art of Embedded Histories

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The Quiet Landscape of the Self

The Quiet Landscape of the Self

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The Quiet Landscape of the Self

The Quiet Landscape of the Self

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Lockdown Diaries

Lockdown Diaries

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Drishti: Turning the Gaze to the Self

Drishti: Turning the Gaze to the Self

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Self-portraits in the Time of Social Distancing

Self-portraits in the Time of Social Distancing

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The Return of Nature

The Return of Nature

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Holding Hands

Holding Hands

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Epilogue to Extended Tomorrows

Epilogue to Extended Tomorrows

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Quarantine Notes from Dhaka

Quarantine Notes from Dhaka

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Handmade is the Way Forward

Handmade is the Way Forward

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TikTok: How artist Gigi Scaria is Using His Time

TikTok: How artist Gigi Scaria is Using His Time

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The Mad Girl Laughs

The Mad Girl Laughs

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Anjolie Ela Menon:The Extraordinariness of the Ordinary

Anjolie Ela Menon:The Extraordinariness of the Ordinary

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The State of Art in the post-Covid World

The State of Art in the post-Covid World

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Shehan Karunatilaka: Laughter in the Dark

Shehan Karunatilaka: Laughter in the Dark

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Tara Sabharwal: Borders of Belonging

Tara Sabharwal: Borders of Belonging

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Artists as Darners and Healers

Artists as Darners and Healers

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Krishen Khanna: A Life in Colours

Krishen Khanna: A Life in Colours

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Wild and Beautiful

Wild and Beautiful

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The Ballad of the Literary Cafe

The Ballad of the Literary Cafe

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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Doyen

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Doyen

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Rebecca Makkai: Art for Heart’s Sake

Rebecca Makkai: Art for Heart’s Sake

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Writing for me is a refuge: Amish

Writing for me is a refuge: Amish

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Four Animals and other poems

Four Animals and other poems

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Mehr: Love Across the Border

Mehr: Love Across the Border

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Low calories in the high street

Low calories in the high street

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Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan

Cartoons: Adventures in Adjuncting & God and Satan

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Shadows and other poems

Shadows and other poems

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Bhubaneswar Art Trail: An exploration into the medieval city

Bhubaneswar Art Trail: An exploration into the medieval city

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Snapshots from a literary cocktail party

Snapshots from a literary cocktail party

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Conversations with TS Eliot

Conversations with TS Eliot

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Diary Poem, Calcutta and other poems

Diary Poem, Calcutta and other poems

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Every material has a history: Arunkumar HG

Every material has a history: Arunkumar HG

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In A Certain Light and other poems

In A Certain Light and other poems

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The End of the Queue in Sight

The End of the Queue in Sight

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Gulzar: Prophet of Pain

Gulzar: Prophet of Pain

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Kahn built structures that transport you  to another universe: Sundaram Tagore

Kahn built structures that transport you to another universe: Sundaram Tagore

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Ram Kumar: An Artist of Rare Sensitivity

Ram Kumar: An Artist of Rare Sensitivity

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Minal Vazirani: Course of Auction

Minal Vazirani: Course of Auction

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JLF Diary: Raconteurs regale  audience with wit & wisdom

JLF Diary: Raconteurs regale audience with wit & wisdom

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The Runway Project: Cuisine Meets Couture

The Runway Project: Cuisine Meets Couture

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I enter the unknown spontaneously: Vivan Sundaram

I enter the unknown spontaneously: Vivan Sundaram

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Riyas Komu: The Anatomy of Angst

Riyas Komu: The Anatomy of Angst

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An Archivist of Our Times

An Archivist of Our Times

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Udaipur World Music Festival celebrates diversity

Udaipur World Music Festival celebrates diversity

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The other India is the country’s larger reality: Dinesh Khanna

The other India is the country’s larger reality: Dinesh Khanna

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The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

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Swati Roy: No Child’s Play

Swati Roy: No Child’s Play

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Sunil Kant Munjal: Hero for the Arts

Sunil Kant Munjal: Hero for the Arts

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Word symbolises the evolution of humankind: Sanjeev Chopra

Word symbolises the evolution of humankind: Sanjeev Chopra

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Where the wild things are

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Where the wild things are

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Menses and other poems

Menses and other poems

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I let narratives take their own course: Nayomi Munaweera

I let narratives take their own course: Nayomi Munaweera

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Faces behind Mughal-e-Azam, the musical

Faces behind Mughal-e-Azam, the musical

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Feroz Abbas Khan on reliving an epic

Feroz Abbas Khan on reliving an epic

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Novel possibilities

Novel possibilities

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The mirror of truth

The mirror of truth

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The glory and depth of Ish

The glory and depth of Ish

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Kazuo Ishiguro: A writer of the floating world

Kazuo Ishiguro: A writer of the floating world

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And soon... and other poems

And soon... and other poems

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Sartorial Advice and other poems

Sartorial Advice and other poems

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‘As actors, we’ve to explore personally what works for us’

‘As actors, we’ve to explore personally what works for us’

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Delusions of the Retina

Delusions of the Retina

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Why Faiz must be read today more than ever

Why Faiz must be read today more than ever

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Curtains

Curtains

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The Petting Zoo and other poems

The Petting Zoo and other poems

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On Song: 29 luminaries on Beatles

On Song: 29 luminaries on Beatles

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The Many Homelands of the Mind

The Many Homelands of the Mind

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Documenta 14 examines the big questions of life

Documenta 14 examines the big questions of life

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For Little Girls With Big Questions and other poems

For Little Girls With Big Questions and other poems

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I like to play with form, material: G R Iranna

I like to play with form, material: G R Iranna

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'Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'

'Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'

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Real beauty is linked to truth: Shakti Maira

Real beauty is linked to truth: Shakti Maira

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Jitish Kallat’s works amaze the senses, challenge the mind

Jitish Kallat’s works amaze the senses, challenge the mind

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Why Pakistan? A novel tries to find an answer

Why Pakistan? A novel tries to find an answer

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AD Singh: The man who changed the way India eats out

AD Singh: The man who changed the way India eats out

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The Big Gulmohar

The Big Gulmohar

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‘I transform, re-manipulate western traditions of music’

‘I transform, re-manipulate western traditions of music’

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I used long exposure time  to visualise speed, energy: Martin Roemers

I used long exposure time to visualise speed, energy: Martin Roemers

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Publishers must focus on authors, and telling stories: Charlie Redmayne

Publishers must focus on authors, and telling stories: Charlie Redmayne

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Delhi’s most significant annual art event gets into its second decade

Delhi’s most significant annual art event gets into its second decade

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My art practice is about social conditions, issues that affect women: Anila Quayyum Agha

My art practice is about social conditions, issues that affect women: Anila Quayyum Agha

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The story behind Oscar-nominated Lion: An evening with Saroo Brierley

The story behind Oscar-nominated Lion: An evening with Saroo Brierley

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Curtain rises on Ranthambore Festival

Curtain rises on Ranthambore Festival

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Serendipity Arts Festival proves to be feast for the senses

Serendipity Arts Festival proves to be feast for the senses

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Art isn’t about truth at all, but without it we’d be lost: Anil Menon

Art isn’t about truth at all, but without it we’d be lost: Anil Menon

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My paintings are realistic, but not real: Kathryn Myers

My paintings are realistic, but not real: Kathryn Myers

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On Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel and The Festival of Insignificance: An Essay in Seven Parts

On Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel and The Festival of Insignificance: An Essay in Seven Parts

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Maryam of Basoda

Maryam of Basoda

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Art of Translation: An Act of Rediscovery

Art of Translation: An Act of Rediscovery

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Art of Translation: Artists as Translators

Art of Translation: Artists as Translators

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Art of Translation: There is a One-Eyed Man in the House

Art of Translation: There is a One-Eyed Man in the House

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Satin Island: An Extract

Satin Island: An Extract

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My Journey: Seeing Inside

My Journey: Seeing Inside

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A Secret Life

A Secret Life

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Reading Father: Baba

Reading Father: Baba

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I wanted to preserve short story's power in a novel: Anuradha Roy

I wanted to preserve short story's power in a novel: Anuradha Roy

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