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
When we see an interesting piece of DIY art, we often ask ourselves “Now why didn’t think of this!” DIY projects not only refresh spaces but they get our creative juices flowing and our home reflects our personalities and are places to showcase and innovate. Every home is a treasureContinue Reading
Colours are an important aspect of every artwork and though drawing does not have any rules to follow, it is essential to at least have some knowledge about the different emotions and palettes of colours. Having a basic understanding will definitely not do any harm to you or your artwork,Continue Reading
A treasure house of both obscure and celebrated tales of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom that became Asia’s first to defeat any European power on Indian soil, the recently opened Palm leaf Manuscript Museum in the Kerala capital has further brightened the state’s cultural and academic space. Billed as the world’sContinue Reading
PTI | | Posted by Akanksha Agnihotri, New Delhi Celebrated filmmaker Muzaffar Ali will showcase his lesser-known artistic side outside of cinema at an upcoming exhibition, featuring the director’s paintings, collages, sketches and designed objects. The ‘Muzaffar Ali’ exhibition at Bikaner House here from January 11 will shed light onContinue Reading