Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File) | Photo Credit: Scott A Garfitt It has been four months and 12 days since Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour came to an end after running for 632 days. Swift did […]
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Kadukkachi, a native mango variety | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Mallissery mango, found exclusively in the Nedumbassery region of Ernakulam district is the one that goes into the famous tangy Angamaly mango curry. The aromatic Kotturkonam varikka is Thiruvananthapuram’s pride, the Kuttiatoor mango from Kannur is the first native variety to get a GI […]
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A decade or so ago, Mathew George Sankaramangalam decided to restore his family’s nearly 100-year-old ancestral home or tharavadu, in Thiruvalla, located in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district. “I inherited this place in the late 1990s after my grandfather passed away, but it ended up lying unused for nearly 25 years,” says the Bengaluru-based businessman. During this […]
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Godson Gladwin leads the ‘Devastha vili’ in Portuguese in Vypeen | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Around midnight, a group of young men, dressed in black, assembles on the Vypeen beach. One of them, 26-year-old Godson Gladwin, is carrying a large wooden cross adorned with a single strand of jasmine. Soon after, with his head bowed […]
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Dandeli is popular for its natural beauty and adventure activities, including white water rafting. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Dandeli has a century-old railway station, but no passenger trains arrive there. There is a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus stand, but rarely does any bus arrive from distant destinations like Bengaluru. This is […]
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Sovan Kumar’s painting May First at Marina Beach | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The truck is pink this time, Fluorescent, absurd, A joke rolling through the streets, On its back, Men made of stone, Green and cold, Push against the air, Their muscles taut, frozen in the eternal effort To move what will not move. […]
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The materials on display laid bare personal histories. | Photo Credit: Courtesy Amshula Prakash “Who gets to say what art is?” asks entertainment lawyer and art curator Amshula Prakash. “Who decides what belongs on a wall, under lights, what is worthy of being looked at?” Janapriya, a unique show curated by Prakash, held this February […]
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Selim Khandakar, 71, has always dreamt of making a museum in his village for the 12,000-plus objects he has collected over 50 years. A small portion of that collection has now reached one of the best museums in the world — the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London — thanks to his artist niece, […]
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What is a museum, really? A building that houses objects? A temple of knowledge? A vault of the past? Or a theatre of the present? The answers are as complex as the institution’s foundational contradiction. Museums claim to preserve and protect, but they also curate and construct. The question of publicness is key. For most […]
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Bharadwaj Dayala, who is on a road trip across the world covering 195 countries for a 12-year-project to document stories of one million women through their portraits. He is currently in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: KR Deepak From the coastal city of Visakhapatnam to the farthest corners of the globe, Bharadwaj Dayala is on an […]
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