Having won the Global Metal Award at the recently concluded Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2010 Awards, Demonic Resurrection, one of India's most popular metal bands, is finally getting some well-deserved recognition worldwide. Frontman Sahil Makhija, a.k.a. The Demonstealer, has been toiling relentlessly to promote Indian metal
Our Toxic World deals with what is probably one of the most serious problems in the world today --- toxicity. However, the approach it takes is a little different. Author Aniruddha Sen Gupta chooses to tell the story through pictures. Placing a family called the Sachdevas at the helm of
Brandon Keim reports for Wired magazine --- "There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious. "A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological
On their fifth studio album, Brooklyn-based, Ohio-born indie rock quintet the National have proven that they’re not just a one-trick pony (or a two-trick one, at that). High Violet, a mélange of meditative lyrics and melancholic undertones, is a suitable and fitting part three in their series of masterpieces,
The BBC's Soutik Biswas reports --- "Bangalore may be a kinetic technology hub teeming with expatriates and bright young Indians, Calcutta a decaying dowager brimming with a million stories, and Delhi the capital where power meets noir. "But cosmopolitan, energetic and chaotic Mumbai, where the rich
She has, along with daughter Anasuya and husband Gopal Sharman, staged their political satire, Let’s Laugh Again, during the Emergency to incredulous packed houses for a six month run, until the Emergency itself collapsed. The family’s Akshara Theatre in the centre of New Delhi, a landmark architectural creation,
The first drops of rain kissed the city a month ago and we're almost midway through the monsoon. And as on any rain soaked day in Mumbai, when I am not working, jabbering or clambering on to public transports, I am curled up in my living room with
Rebellion being an undercurrent running beneath the surface of any seemingly homogeneous form of culture, the indie scene has become one of the most forthright and conspicuous forms of subculture of our times. Like many subcultures before and after it which initially rejected the conformist label, indie has gradually come
We read about superheroes. We read about supervillains trying to destroy the planet. We also read about how these superheroes fend off the supervillains and save the world. After we read these comics and realise that what we call as a 'graphic novel' is not totally graphic, we
Excellent interview with renowned writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Lost Girls) on The Quietus --- On his mistrust of the Internet: "I'm practically Amish when it comes down to it. I practically mistrust any technology that came after the buggy. What I tend