“We have one life to live. To deny ourselves art in that one life would be tragic.” So believe the founders of Kulture Shop, a Bandra-based showroom and store that is trying to bring art, accessibility, modernity, and Indian-ness together under one umbrella. "We're building a community.
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
1. 2012 was the year of The Girl in the Leopard-Skin Brassiere. In 2012, for three whole months, she occupied the drawing room of my imagination. 2. That year, the heat forced people out on to their balconies in vests and shorts. Nature’s way of nudging us to talk.
While cooking and heavy metal might be an unlikely pairing in most people's minds, Sahil Makhija, frontman of Mumbai-based death metal band Demonic Resurrection, relishes the combination. In early 2011, Makhija---better known in the local metal scene as the Demonstealer---merged his passion for cooking with his love of
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
For 11 years, from the day she was appointed as a temp, then confirmed as a Librarian’s Assistant, and later promoted to the post of Chief Librarian of Girl’s Sr. Cambridge High School, Coimbatore, she had been travelling on this very route. Every morning, she left her house
It was around three years ago that I watched a documentary---Fuel---on our, and more specifically the Americans’, addiction to oil. An email that I circulated among a few friends at that time has prompted me to share those thoughts with a wider audience. What had started off as an innocuous
There are certain recurring themes in Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories that have come to be associated with her---the Bengali immigrant in unaccustomed landscapes, the solitary nature of academic life in America, an unshakable and intense melancholia that her characters seem to so willingly embrace themselves in, and the rich psychological
The School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is combining form and content in 'Mapping Gender', a rich new exhibition by its M.Phil. Visual Studies students. Using their study of curatorial practice and art forms, the students are putting up a carefully
The woman in the desert is not a woman at all, but an English song. The quiet hum of a married girl, but her distant gaze is bound to the Sea, like fantasy. She’s younger than the vanishing horses along the vacation shore, she’s younger than the eggs
 Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention, please? Ah, much better. Tonight, we won’t be serving our excellent pinot noir, for we fear that inebriated conversations, piping to the rhythm of the soft tinkle of delicate cutlery and held captive by
