Every year, around Valentine’s Day, blues music fans from across India and the world meet for an annual date at Mumbai’s Mehboob Studios. They congregate for the Mahindra Blues Festival. It returns on Saturday after a three-year pandemic-induced interval, marking its 11th edition, which makes it one of the country’s longest-running music festivals. That’s an […]
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It began with a simple statement: “My identity is my right.” It was February 2021, right after the lockdown had lifted. The youth of Natwar Parekh Compound, a slum relocation and rehabilitation colony in Mumbai’s Govandi neighbourhood, had convened at the community library for a workshop about reclaiming public space. One of the most neglected […]
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Of all the gutsy things an arena rock band can do, Imagine Dragons began their 90-minute Lollapalooza Paris performance a few months ago with the sounds of the humble mandolin, kickstarting the show with one of their earliest hits ‘It’s Time’. Frontman Dan Reynolds remained the focal point for thousands of phone cameras recording the […]
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Mumbai-based Gillo Repertory Theatre who will be performing its latest production The Ghost of the Mountains at the Vizag Junior Theatre Fest In Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “The Indian schooling system is binary-minded and does not make space for the grays. Artists today can play a bigger role in supplementing education. Many of […]
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Children participating in a workshop of Birds of a Feather from Delhi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The inaugural edition of the Vizag Junior Theatre Fest is being organised by the LitLantern for Culture and Literature Welfare Society on January 21 and 22 at VMRDA Children’s Arena in Visakhapatnam. Planned for children between the ages […]
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The themes that keep drawing Jitish Kallat have, in his words, “persisted or continued to grow in different ways.” These include, “themes of birth, death, time, evolution and decay.” In the 25 years since, Jitish has shown across the world, art that interrogates the fundamentals of life and how humans try and make sense those […]
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Leasing of office space across six major cities is likely to rise 52% to 50.1 million sq. ft in 2022 on better demand but absorption may fall to 35-38 million sq. ft next year with corporates being cautious, according to Colliers India. According to its data, the gross leasing of Grade-A (premium) office space in […]
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Jitish Kallat’s ‘Epicycles’ at Chemould Prescott Road. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Weaving one’s way through a Jitish Kallat exhibition affords a staggering range of visuals: a mechanical engineering workshop replete with lathe machines and high-speed steel tools, wide canvases with in-line drawings reminiscent of a master of architecture studies, images collapsing into each other […]
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For generations, villas in sleepy seaside towns and cottages in remote hill-stations lay vacant for most of the year. Only the affluent could afford this luxury, requiring sizeable investment and extensive maintenance — all for an average stay of 40 days a year. Common sense informs that these homes do better when shared. In 2020-21, […]
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King’s Ransom, Zuccarrelli, Theon and Iron Age caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Sunday (Nov. 27) morning. Inner sand: 600m: 2/y/o Eaton Square (Suraj Narredu), Count Of Savoy (S.J. Sunil) 41. Former made up three lengths and finished level. Chat (Nazil) 40. Easy. Peregrine Falcon (Kirtish) 42. Easy. 2/y/o Capitolium (Neeraj) […]
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