Ramlila: Helping amateurs satisfy their creativity
byNew Delhi: Ramanand Bajpai is a doctor in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Asked to play the Ravana in one of Delhi’s oldest Ramlilas, he quickly…
Art & Heritage
Of reviving Kerala culture and integrating Gulf Malayalis
byDubai: He quit India’s space agency many years ago to spur a revival of India’s cultural traditions across the world. Today, Nataraja ‘Soorya’ Krishnamoorthy…
Italy, India renew historical ties
byNew Delhi: Italy is renewing its historical ties with India by commemorating the legacy of one of its iconic Oriental scholars and Indophiles Luigi…
Printmaking finding new scope to live, re-invent
byNew Delhi: The decline in the art market in the aftermath of the economic meltdown has given the 15th century artistic tradition of printmaking…
We’ve been replaced by computers: Poster designer Eswar
byChennai: He has designed posters of around 2,500 films in a career spanning three decades. But now, India’s renowned publicity and movie poster designer…
Minimal Art: Going back to the Basics
byWith the online presence of all businesses soaring, the element of design is really beginning to shine through in the promotions and merchandise these…
Art in a Can: Interview with Graffiti Artist Bruce Dunn
byPune-based Bruce Dunn explores the usually ‘outcast’ art form graffiti as a medium of art and social expression. Although Bruce shuns conventional galleries, he has held Graffiti…
A peek into an ancient past – through ghost walls
byNew Delhi: They were walls that existed hundreds of years ago – of buildings to house royalty and even deities. Today they are reduced…
Vikram Seth’s new canvas: Spirits, poetry, calligraphic
byNew Delhi: Art is a natural extension of novelist-poet Vikram Seth’s literature. The writer says he likes to paint — both in words and…
Roerich estate has 37 rare paintings of Russian painter
byShimla: The International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT), which manages Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich’s estate in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, has over…