Translated by Nandana Dev Sen Asia Society India Centre hosted an online conversation on the book Acrobat: Poems by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (published by Juggernaut Books) on February 02, 2022; the organization’s…
Capitalism and the Museum One of the most fascinating aspects of the history of the museum is its relationship with capitalism, which, like the museum itself, had its origin in Enlightenment. The…
The Pilgrim’s Bowl, by Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet, is a meditation on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions. Jaccottet examines Morandi’s still…
Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but also how the art they fashioned invoked their own conception of the nation, their…
The following is KG Subramanyan’s paper presented at the Seminar organized by the English Department at Visva-Bharati on 29th January 2012. Friends, I am very happy to be in your midst this…
It was in the middle of the year 1976. I was teaching my last German class at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Kolkata. For three years I had been a…
Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its…
On 24th December, an exclusive interview was held with the performers for ‘Ami Theke Amra’ – Durnibar Saha, Saurav Moni and Subhadeep Guha, at AMI Arts Festival 2023. The interview reveals the…
What Is Jaipur In For? As I reluctantly zero in (on the third try) on the best spot around this thrust stage at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, two college girls follow…
As part of AMI Arts festival 2022, a virtual talk session ‘Role of Creators in Society’ was organised by KCC in collaboration with Kala Chaupal. The session was moderated by Rahul Kumar,…
In 2018 #FreeShahidulAlam became a rallying point for people across the world to question their respective governments, to demand democracy in its elemental form. International agencies and intellectuals condemned the imprisonment of…
The following is an excerpt from ‘Linear Progressions: Tracing the Line in Karnataka’, by Nalini S Malaviya, published in Karnataka Lalithakala Academy Journal.* S. G. Vasudev (born 1941), also a consistent practitioner…
Black Hole is a 90-minute solo, devised theatre piece brought to you by over three years of research, improvisation, a visit to CERN, a grant from the India Foundation for the Arts,…
“This (cash) is for satiating my worldly needs, my hunger. I believe I gain wealth when someone appreciates my art, when they feel my art and start engaging with it” — Bijoy…
Noted thespian of contemporary Bengali stage, Goutam Haldar performed his theatrical adaptation of Munshi Premchand’s short story Bade Bhai Sahib (or The Elder Brother), at AMI Arts Festival 2022. This one-act, solo…
