New Delhi, March 14 – Erotic art with a social message literally hit the Indian streets when leading Chinese performance artist Han Bing performed ‘Dreams of Lost Homes’ – a live erotic act – in the heart of the capital.
The one-hour act by bare bodied Bing, clad in just a loin cloth, making meditative love [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – Thirty-three rare paintings, all classical 19th and 20th century Russian winter landscapes by leading artists, have stepped out of the Russian Museum at St.Petersburg for the first time in the archive’s 115-year-old history for a show in the Indian capital.
Coinciding with the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ‘Russian [...]
Aizawl, March 11 – They plan to dance their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. Around 12,000 young men and women in Mizoram will move rhythmically between clicking bamboo stilts to set a record as the largest dance congregation in the world Friday.
‘Over 11,900 dancers in traditional costumes from all the eight Mizoram [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – The stigma surrounding stage actresses still persists in middle class Indian society, 147 years after the birth of Nati Binodini, the first woman icon of Bengali stage, says National School of Drama (NSD) president Amal Allana.
She staged her multi-lingual play, ‘Nati Binodini’, as part of the ongoing South Asian Women’s [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – ‘The Last Sunset’ by erstwhile royal and former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh dominates non-fiction this week while Stieg Larsson’s ‘The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest’ climbs four steps to take the number one fiction spot on the bestseller list.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. ‘The Last Sunset’
Author: [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – Enrico Rava, one of the most sought after jazz musicians in Europe, is inspired by Indian music that ‘creeps’ sub-consciously into his compositions.
‘I like Parveen Sultana and Bismillah Khan. When I played in India at the Yatra jazz festival in Mumbai 25 years ago, I attended shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan’s [...]
New Delhi, March 9 – Should Maqbool Fida Husain, who put the Indian contemporary art on the world map, have given up Indian citizenship? The artistic community is sharply divided.
While some feel that he should not have left India, others contend that he wanted to put the past behind him and find a new home [...]
Vadodara, March 8 – Eminent linguist and the founder director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages D.P. Pattanayak Monday urged the central government to conduct the long overdue linguistic survey in the country.
‘This is the only way to know all our languages,’ Pattanayak said.
The octogenarian was speaking at the inauguration of the two-day [...]
New Delhi, March 8 – Spirituality, women’s bonding, landscapes, coloured abstractions, shapes and figures – 261 artists from all over the world have put their thoughts on 300 canvases in one of the biggest women’s art exhibitions at the Art Mall here.
The exhibition titled ‘Stree’, which began three years ago as an annual event, is [...]
Agra, March 8 – One of the last exponents of the Agra Gharana of Hindustani classical music, 86-year-old Ustad Akeel Ahmad Khan is not only unwell but is also a disenchanted man. He has no government support and says this city ‘honours only the dead’.
Tracing his lineage to the legendary Tansen and grandson of [...]
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