‘Turtle Walker’ is a heart-warming watch, spotlighting the extraordinary life and times of marine biologist Satish Bhaskar.
Payal Kapadia and all she has imagined
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.
Babu: A custodian of gaming history
Take a trip down memory lane and visit one of the oldest video game stores in India.
Meet the eco-feminist army saving giant storks in Assam
The Hargila Army has built a sisterhood of sorts by leading a massive conservation movement through song, dance, sari-making, and GPS tagging.
Art Mumbai’s Sculpture Walk reveals some deep-sea secrets
Artist Parag Tandel’s installation uses Koli fishing community’s knowledge to protest the upheaval of Mumbai’s marine ecology.
Objects in this picture are louder than they appear
In Bhasha Chakrabarti’s playful new interactive exhibition, the furniture sings a Hindustani raga.
Beyond Encore: The Recurrence of Gandhi in Textiles
From vernacular crafts to designer intervention, India’s textile referencing to Mahatma Gandhi has only grown in heft and weft
A new crop of artists is reinventing botanicals
And you don't need a green thumb to collect them.
Kiran Rao: Up close and personal
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.
The great Indian hustle behind the Cannes red carpet
From stylists to photographers, creatives from India are funding their own trips to the South of France in the hope of landing interesting clients.
At 86, Arpita Singh continues to feel the urge to paint every day
A soothing colour palette and floating figures lend a certain whimsicality to Arpita Singh’s paintings, but their perceived is loaded with meaning.
THE HOUSE OF SABYASACHI
The couturier, Sabyasachi Mukherjee opened his new flagship store in Mumbai, inside the grand structure of a neo classical landmark.
TARQ has a charming new home
This Mumbai art gallery opens its new space with Sameer Kulavoor’s thought-provoking exhibition, ‘Edifice Complex’.
T. Venkanna’s erotically charged artworks actually relay a crucial message
The artist’s ferociously beautiful artworks hint at his prodigious brilliance.
BHARTI KHER: THE PEOPLE WATCHER
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.
Small Wonder
Pakistani printmaker Bushra Waqas Khan’s convention-stripping, doll-sized gowns are deeply layered in form and meaning, discovers Radhika Iyengar.
An Ancient ‘Tiger God’ Helps Communities and Big Cats Coexist in India
Across the central and western parts of the country, reverence for the deity translates to tolerance for predators
Is this the most important Indian art exhibit of the season?
Shifting Selves, an art exhibit by Sarmaya Arts Foundation in collaboration with TARQ Art Gallery, is having an unflinching conversation about identity and belonging
India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art
The drivers go to great lengths to beautify their trucks, which are also their homes
Remembering the London Refuge for South Asian Nannies Far From Home
Abandoned by their employers after a months-long sea voyage, countless women found shelter here