An eight-year-old girl is in a car with her father. A song begins to play on the radio. The father, not usually given to emotion, lights up, turns the volume up and tells his daughter she’s about to hear the best guitar-playing ever. Time passes. The father dies. The womanContinue Reading
Annika Connor stated that talent, passion, and drive are the most crucial traits for an aspiring artist to possess. Art is a diverse field that encompasses various disciplines and, like any other field, it is associated with many stereotypes, the most common of which is the “starving artist.” This stereotypeContinue Reading
The culture of Turkey is one of the most unique and fascinating in the world as it has been shaped by a long and tumultuous history, with influences from the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the ancient civilizations of Anatolia. Turkey is a country of diversity, with a populationContinue Reading
Singapore is a small island nation with a rich cultural heritage. From its diverse population to its vibrant nightlife, Singapore is a melting pot of cultures and traditions. Singapore has a long and storied history, having been ruled by the British and the Japanese before becoming an independent nation. ThisContinue Reading
PTI | | Posted by Parmita Uniyal, New Delhi Sahitya Kala Parishad, the Delhi government’s art and culture arm, will showcase four plays here at Kamani Auditorium from Tuesday to pay tribute to playwright Mohan Rakesh. The ‘Mohan Rakesh Natya Samaroh’ will see plays that are chosen through an all-IndiaContinue Reading
Colours are currently used much more expressively, regardless of traditional colour harmonies and rules and by using a variety of “loud, “bright” and “unrelated” colours on clothing, furniture, interior, exterior, ceremonial and other designs, artists and designers appear to be breaching colour limits more than ever. Others refer to thisContinue Reading
India will become the world’s most populous country this year, outstripping China to number over 1.4 billion by April. (By 2050, estimates say, India will have a population of 1.6 billion, to China’s 1.3 billion.) This means that, by April, about 18% of the world’s population will be crammed intoContinue Reading
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) will co-produce an exhibition featuring Indian and Bangladeshi artists with the Samdani Art Foundation (SAF) at the sixth Dhaka Art Summit. With over 140 local and international artists and architects, the Dhaka Art Summit will be held in the Bangladesh capital from FebruaryContinue Reading
Stung by a series of poor results from the men’s cricket team in 2022, and with the 50-over World Cup coming to India later this year, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has introduced some interesting fitness-focused initiatives. It has brought back the yo-yo test, a standardContinue Reading
Shakuntala Talwar was eight when her family fled Sindh during Partition. Travelling to Bombay on a chaotic passenger ship, “our mother made a protective wall, arranging the suitcases and pickle bottles… into a circle inside which we sat,” she would later tell her niece, the author and oral historian SaazContinue Reading