Postscript
Postscript
Women writers like Isak Dinesen, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing have overcome widespread biases to answer the call to their own largeness.
Artists who revel in awards from the establishment run the risk of co-optation and neutralisation – and a loss of integrity.
Pete Seeger, who died on 27 January 2014, aged 94, was an American singer and activist who turned folk music into a vehicle for social change.
The Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu is home to a growing movement of organic farming, now egged on by the district administration.
Unlike their Pakistani counterparts, Indian writers seem to be cowed down by a general fear of irreverence and open criticism of society and the establishment.
Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party have given a new lease of life to the very humble Gandhi cap.
Trekking enthusiasts have rediscovered an ancient trail in the form of the Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra, which takes place once in 12 years.
In the Bengali film Chader Pahar, director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee has wasted the chance for a course correction on Africa.
The efforts of a new crop of young writers in Meghalaya are sowing the seeds of what can be called a “Shillong canon”.
Inspired by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s “mirror stage” theory, a friendly banter among siblings fails to resolve the value of mirrors.
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is an acid dissection of the wanton life and times of a criminally wealthy stockbroker.
Contemporary Indian dancers are drawing on classical traditions to craft a new aesthetic and vocabulary of dance that reflect current sensibilities.
