Malayalam film director Nithish Sahadev’s Falimy is about a dysfunctional family with Basil Joseph Manju Pillai

[ad_1] Film director Nithish Sahadev on the location of Falimy. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT There is a spelling mistake in the title of the Malayalam movie Falimy, but that is deliberate, explains debutant Nithish Sahadev about his film. “It is a clue to the error in the ways and thinking of a dysfunctional family. […]

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How Myriad Two transitions between tradition and technology

[ad_1] Art by Sandhya Sirsi | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some of the best aspects of art and design come together in Myriad Two, an exhibition of Dokra-inspired art by the mother-daughter duo, artist Sandhya K. Sirsi and designer Nihaarika Sirsi. Dokra is the tribal art form of Chhattisgarh and uses the lost wax casting […]

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To the beat of the loom | Rima Kallingal’s Neythe – Dance of the Weaves debuts

[ad_1] Actor-dancer Rima Kallingal is in her element when we meet at the Fine Arts Hall in Kochi, Kerala. She is “happily tired” for she and seven members from her dance company, Mamangam, have been practising daily for the past two months for their maiden show, Neythe—Dance of the Weaves. The 35-minute Indian contemporary dance […]

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New Delhi | Sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan’s retrospective, On The Open Road, encapsulates 50 years

[ad_1] K.S. Radhakrishnan’s The Crowd (2021) K.S. Radhakrishnan, 67, still remembers the day he met Musui. It was during his third year at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and the young Santhal boy — with overgrown hair and a disarming smile — asked him for bread. “It was probably one of the most exceptional expressions I’d seen, and […]

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Rangbhoomi Spaces in Hyderabad set to celebrate its third anniversary in

[ad_1] Actors of the play ‘Bombay Tailors’ during a rehearsal session in progress at Rangbhoomi Spaces in Gachibowli. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G “The countdown has begun,” exclaims theatre actor and director Jay Jha, referring to the month of festivities in December. He is set to marry fellow theatre personality Preksha Trivedi on December 8 […]

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This young entrepreneuer has designed work capsules and stationed them at a mall in Chennai

[ad_1] The phone booth is over. But a work station booth could just be the beginning. G. Pranavnath, a 30-year-old entrepreneur, has just designed work capsules which can be set up in busy spaces. “While we are familiar with co-working spaces, the concept of work station booths are yet to catch up here. These work […]

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Chennai’s Korean stores have the answers to all your K-drama cravings

[ad_1] At Seoul Store in Saidapet, the first thing that catches your eye when you walk in are shelves of Maxim coffee. The bright yellow boxes that have coffee premix sticks are a K-drama staple; Song Joong-ki as Vincenzo in the 2021 show of the same name, downs cups of Maxim coffee and memorably proclaims […]

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Sunday means sparring for this gaming community in Chennai that hosts weekly Street Fighter 6 and Smash Bros tournaments

[ad_1] Gamers at LXG, Nungambakkam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Adhithya Mahesh’s Sundays have been packed over the last six weeks. This senior member of the Indian Fighting Game Community (IFGC), has recently begun organising tournaments for two games — Street Fighter 6 and Smash Bros — at gaming cafe LXG League of Extraordinary Gamers, […]

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The 1612-built and decomissioned Aguada Central Jail in Goa turned into an interactive museum

[ad_1] There is so much more to Goa than just beaches, shacks and its party scene. With a history so eventful, Goa has many untold stories to tell. And, Aguad Interactive Museum: The Land, The People, and The Struggle is an effort in that direction. The recently-launched museum, which is set in a decommissioned prison, […]

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Fisherwomen from Nagapattinam turn documentary photographers

[ad_1] The team from Nagapattinam that participated in the workshop | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Fisherwoman P Poonkodi will never forget the looks she got from people in her village when they first saw her with a DSLR camera. “I felt uncomfortable,” recalls the 34-year-old, who is from Seruthur in Nagapattinam. “They asked lots of […]

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