In 2024, Payal Kapadia made history by becoming the only woman filmmaker from India to be nominated for the Golden Globes for Best Director. Earlier in the year year, her debut feature film, All We Imagine as Light also became the first film from India to secure the coveted Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Take a trip down memory lane and visit one of the oldest video game stores in India.
The Hargila Army has built a sisterhood of sorts by leading a massive conservation movement through song, dance, sari-making, and GPS tagging.
Artist Parag Tandel’s installation uses Koli fishing community’s knowledge to protest the upheaval of Mumbai’s marine ecology.
In Bhasha Chakrabarti’s playful new interactive exhibition, the furniture sings a Hindustani raga.
From vernacular crafts to designer intervention, India’s textile referencing to Mahatma Gandhi has only grown in heft and weft
On a summer afternoon, director-producer Kiran Rao greets us in a white lace Péro dress. Her striking curls have been left unbound; her golden-rimmed glasses are perched high on her nose and her effervescent warmth is contagious.
From stylists to photographers, creatives from India are funding their own trips to the South of France in the hope of landing interesting clients.
A soothing colour palette and floating figures lend a certain whimsicality to Arpita Singh’s paintings, but their perceived is loaded with meaning.
The couturier, Sabyasachi Mukherjee opened his new flagship store in Mumbai, inside the grand structure of a neo classical landmark.
This Mumbai art gallery opens its new space with Sameer Kulavoor’s thought-provoking exhibition, ‘Edifice Complex’.
The artist’s ferociously beautiful artworks hint at his prodigious brilliance.
Bharti Kher’s fantastical creatures are truth-tellers, hewn out of a reality we tend to overlook or rarely acknowledge. The remarkable artist, known for her larger-than-life installations and head-turning sculptures, talks about her work.
Pakistani printmaker Bushra Waqas Khan’s convention-stripping, doll-sized gowns are deeply layered in form and meaning, discovers Radhika Iyengar.
Across the central and western parts of the country, reverence for the deity translates to tolerance for predators
Shifting Selves, an art exhibit by Sarmaya Arts Foundation in collaboration with TARQ Art Gallery, is having an unflinching conversation about identity and belonging
The drivers go to great lengths to beautify their trucks, which are also their homes
Abandoned by their employers after a months-long sea voyage, countless women found shelter here
Tharun Sekar’s creations include the yazh, a harp-like instrument played in India 2,000 years ago.
