Tag: social commentary
Artist Devika Sundar’s latest series is about deconstructing the idea of...
Normal is an insidious idea that more often than not, makes people doubt and question themselves. It is a subjective concept that varies according...
Healing through Art: The Art Outreach Society
On a Sunday afternoon, the children at Udhaya Bhavan showed us the models of houses they'd made from ice-cream sticks, smiling with pride. Each...
A display of platonic love: Indian Men Holding Hands
Fingers intertwined.Fingers laced.Holding hands has been used to symbolize romantic love by Western authors for as long as the written word has existed. As...
Bangalore Literature Festival 2018 – Day 1
Inhabitants of Bangalore not only braved it’s much dreaded traffic but also the scorching sun to be at the 7th edition of the Bangalore...
Shantanu Anand and his chapbook of poetry: exploring identities, gender and...
An individual is made up of a number of identities. Some that one inherits, some that one adopts. But how conscious are we of...
Artist Rajyashri Goody explores Dalit voice, representation through family photos +...
Nowhere is the popular saying ‘You are what you eat’ as straightforward and complicated at the same time as in India, where we symbolically...
Reinventing India’s Healthcare System
In a country where funding for public health benefits exists only on paper, affordable healthcare is a goal still far from realized. This is...
Here are the 2 Indian nominees for global sci-fi literature Hugo...
Instituted in 1953, the Hugo Awards are considered to be the most coveted in the field of science fiction and fantasy (SFF). This year,...
Of dialogues and gender – CreaShakti’s ‘Dolls’
Analysing gender in the Indian context always has us talking about the oppressing hand of the patriarchy. Gender imposed roles also play a huge...
Untold stories from the subcontinent’s past come alive on Daak’s postcards
Handwriting; paper; postcards: it's incredible how much intrigue and wonder they can bring to our small little worlds.Yellow rectangular cards, blue airmail letters, white...
