A walk down the queer side of Varanasi | Debashish Paul’s first solo exhibition

A walk down the queer side of Varanasi | Debashish Paul’s first solo exhibition

“Varanasi feels like a very queer city to me,” says artist Debashish Paul, speaking of his adopted home where he presently lives and works since finishing his Masters’ in sculpture from the Banaras Hindu University in 2021. For his first solo exhibition, A Thousand Years of Dreaming, at Kolkata’s Emami Art, he channels “the playfulness, colours […]

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Fancy a long walk? Hop, skip, and step towards Chennai’s newly designated 8km Health Walk stretch

Fancy a long walk? Hop, skip, and step towards Chennai’s newly designated 8km Health Walk stretch

There is a steady drizzle at 6.30am and when I look up, the skies are ominous. I am standing at the corner of Besant Avenue road, next to Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy Park. There is a new addition to that corner — a towering arch in green and orange. A well-lit sign declares — ‘Healthwalk Start’ […]

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