I am more concerned about voices becoming silent out of fear, people deciding not to paint, sing or write in protest.
Faulty claims of copyright curbs the freedom to practise and share living, ‘open source’ art forms.
A distinct publication where the voices have been varied, diverse, soft, loud, intimate, mannered, violent, tender, brash, considerate, empathetic and even sterile.
Artistes are a fragile species who need constant reaffirmation and cultural validation
Whether manifestly spoken or not, art is always political. How can it not be so in times when the political class is in cahoots with hate-mongers?
Not fearless, but not fearful—Perumal Murugan’s scathing gaze alights on himself, nature and still life to evoke the rankness of the hounded artist’s life
Carnatic Vocalist T.M. Krishna on how a bus-ride to Chennai's coast turned into a musical caravan and why the sea is not witness to songs by fisher-folk anymore
Technology is not in itself a disruption, but a partner in jugalbandi with the ‘old’. But we must hearken to music’s politics as much as to its aesthetics.
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