At the panel discussion, Responsibility Response, artist Subodh Gupta said people in India often know art through celebrity and price tags, not through engagement or understanding.
Many of Mandi House’s cultural institutes came up within the same decade. Rabindra Bhavan, which houses the three akademis, was Nehru’s vision, an act of nation-building.
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake met Odissi with a new narrative drawn from Nala and Damyanti, the ancient Indian epic of exile, devotion, and reunion from the Mahabharata.
Two Bengali plays bagged 9 of the 13 awards at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards. It’s perhaps the state’s biggest haul at India’s most prestigious theatre awards.
The ruling party’s narrative is largely based on infrastructure development, their rhetoric on reclaiming our lost culture, the uniformity of laws, and a nationalism that dictates selectively.
Art historian Benoy Behl unveiled 30 years of his work at Delhi’s IIC, enthralling visitors with his low-light images and digital restorations of Buddhist cave paintings, Chola-era murals.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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