Featuring cinephilia What: For cinephiles in the city, Open Frame Film Festival is back with its 18th edition. The festival will present new films, conversations and workshops. It will also involve discussions on documentaries as a form of film-making, the kind of stories documentaries narrate and how, the artistic and political processes that shape them […]

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This exhibition has captured the struggles of people living on the fringes of society with photographs so powerful you will feel connected with their reality Shiju Basheer’s photographs narrate their own stories — capturing the struggles of people from across the world, his collection is set to be exhibited in a series titled Unscripted Lives. […]

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Live music gigs held on the terraces of North Campus apartments are a new form of entertainment for small, select audiences Imagine listening to acoustic music while sipping your favourite drink on a rooftop lit with fairy lights on a windy August evening. No, this is not a scene from some fancy club or a […]

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Crack your brain What: Here’s a festival that celebrates madness. To challenge how we understand and relate to mental illness, a two-day festival brings in different individuals from all fields (those who have received mental health services and those who have not) to speak openly about their experiences with madness, depression, anxiety and mental health, […]

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Bakula Nayak transforms forgotten remnants of past into art and gives them a new life in her exhibition ‘Intimate Strangers’ Bakula Nayak describes herself as a raconteur. Old bills, journals, an old alarm clock, a half-filled bottle of ink with torn label, she collects it all and breathes new life into them. These vintage objects […]

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Photographer Rajib De brings out the contrast between a city from the past and a new emerging city in India through his photography exhibition “Nothing in life is permanent.” Hampi, the once magnificent city of the fourteenth century, is now deserted. A new polis, Newtown, is rising out of the rural soil of West Bengal. […]

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Korean pop is taking the world by storm with its dance, fashion, music and India is no exception New Delhi: “There’s this thing about K-Pop, once you’re into it there’s no going back,” says Erika Lepcha excitedly. The 22-year-old is one among the several young Indians who have been captured by the craze of Korean […]

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Tickling lessons What: For cinephiles in the city, here’s a screening of a Japanese film that relives the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Children of Nagasaki goes back to August 7, 1945, during World War II, when Nagai Takashi, a doctor in the radioactive department at Nagasaki Medical School, evacuates his 11-year-old son, Seiichi, and […]

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