Naina Devi’s personal journey across varied elite strata makes for a great story. So is her early talent as a thumri singer, its cessation, and its later continuation.
Ratan Thiyam, the world-renowned theatre director from Manipur, who won the Outlook SpeakOut Award for Best Artist, reminisces about his life’s journey.
Two of India’s top visual artistes have come together to gift viewers with a rare synergy of paintings and photographs along the same walls. A look at an ongoing Delhi exhibition of select works by Aruna Vasudev and Achal Kumar:
Today is Bihu, the Assamese new-year spring festival. A look at the English translation of the latest short-story collection by Kula Saikia, also the north-eastern state’s director general of police:
Today is Bihu, the Assamese new-year spring festival. A look at the English translation of the latest short-story collection by Kula Saikia, also the north-eastern state’s director general of police.
This year marks the completion of nine decades after the debut exhibition of Jamini Roy’s paintings. Today is the 131st birth anniversary of the pioneering modern artist.
April 7 is World Health Day. It’s also the birth anniversary of Pt Ravi Shankar, who went on to live a good 92 years. A look at the iconic Hindustani musician from the angle of another top instrumentalist:
The culinary world marks March 30 as a special occasion to hail the modest Madrasi rice-cake. A personal take on its varied avatars and preferences in the country
A landmark congregation of exponents, scholars and students displayed the ways in which the Kerala’s feminine classical art has grown over decades. A look at the just-concluded event in Delhi:
In a life that began from Western UP and bloomed in Bombay, vocalist Aslam Hussain Khan (1940-2018) was a bona fide voice of half-a-dozen schools of north Indian classical.
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