The white hot clay story: Studio pottery in India is having its moment

The white hot clay story: Studio pottery in India is having its moment

At first glance, Andretta in Himachal Pradesh presents an array of familiar visuals associated with a place that borders tourist towns — steel-framed momo stalls, travel counters with colourful paper stamps to ferry you to the farthest reaches of the Himalayas, and general stores that sell everything from local soaps to souvenirs. However, this nondescript […]

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Mumbai is taking the museum outdoors — with public art festivals

Mumbai is taking the museum outdoors — with public art festivals

Last December, St+Art India Foundation returned to Sassoon Docks after a five-year hiatus. Since then, the ongoing Mumbai Urban Art Festival (MUAF) has seen large murals wrap around the facades of old warehouses, abandoned shrimp factories turn into industrial art galleries, and the streets overflow with visitors braving the fishy smell, with kids and the […]

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Colonial Cousins re-unite: Hariharan and Leslee Lewis on music, brotherhood and everything in between

Colonial Cousins re-unite: Hariharan and Leslee Lewis on music, brotherhood and everything in between

As far as stories of friendships go, it’s hard to beat this one. In 1992, a talented singer named Hariharan (who had burst into the mainstream spotlight with Thamizha Thamizha for A. R Rahman’s debut album in Mani Ratnam’s Roja) met another equally-gifted composer-producer Leslee Lewis to record a jingle for the latter. A couple […]

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