Tag: art
This game raises awareness about 1000s of Indian women lost to...
The silhouettes of young girls exhibited at the India Art Fair 2014, larger than life and painted pitch black so that they appear like...
Rashmi Kaleka: saving the sounds of street vendors before they’re lost...
Whether it’s the cry of “kaaaapii, kaaapi!!” on trains or “bhaji ghya, bhaaji” on the road in front of your house, the sing-song calls...
Webcomic Inedible India uses Mughal kings, Raja Ravi Varma paintings to...
With hundreds of socio-politically satirical comic strips floating around the internet, Rajesh Rajamani, a banker by profession, knew that if he was going to...
Words that move mountains: Kumaon Literary Festival 2016 Preview
From October 11-15, the Himalayas will be rife with the spirit of expression, as the mountains play host to the second edition of the...
Painting the town: this artist celebrates Bengaluru in 100 illustrations
The identity of a city, its unique characteristics, stories and eccentricities, are expressed every day, through food, architecture, and culture, in the city streets...
Make art, not war: creative expression provides solace to the youth...
Utter the word ‘Kashmir’ and a myriad of images come to mind: immense mountain peaks, vast skyscapes and pristine lakes, but inevitably, also that...
You mean the past wasn’t actually black and white? Dimple Negi’s...
Adding colour to life is more than a cliché for Dimple Negi, a 24 year old from Uttarakhand. This young illustrator, who considers photos...
India’s Cultural Mapping Project gets a massive response from 55 lakh...
To document India's vast and rich repository of cultural resources, heritage organisations and artists, The Ministry of Culture recently embarked on an ambitious initiative called The Cultural Mapping Project. The mammoth scale of the project seems daunting,..
‘Taxi Fabric’ transforms Mumbai cabs from drab to fab
Throwback to the 1970s: Hindi movies capturing the romanticism of Bombay (as it was known then), sheets of rain pelting down, drenching a young couple as they attempt to tame a misbehaving umbrella on an empty, wet stretch of road. Just then, ..
Preview: Mountain Echoes Literary Festival 2016, Thimphu, Bhutan
Started as an initiative by the India-Bhutan Foundation in collaboration with Siyahi, a literary agency, Mountain Echoes is a vociferous mouthpiece for the languages, myths, stories, folklore, traditions of the Himalayan belt and its people.
