Culture & Books

Proma Chakraborty -August 23, 2018

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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Proma Chakraborty -August 23, 2018

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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Proma Chakraborty -August 17, 2018

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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Proma Chakraborty -August 17, 2018

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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Proma Chakraborty -August 9, 2018

Several documentaries have been made on Delhi, highlighting the issues that bedevil the capital and encouraging citizens to think critically about them On January 20 this year, a fire in Bawana Industrial area claimed the lives of 17 workers. Approached by a professor to compile a report on one of the worst fire tragedies in […]

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Proma Chakraborty -August 9, 2018

On the occasion of World Photography Day, here’s an exhibition of vintage cameras and rare photographs Back in 1901, Maharaja Dev Shamsher Rana was the Prime Minister of Nepal for just 144 days and was sent to exile in India by his brother. More than a century later in 2012, his great-great-granddaughter Isha Singh Sahney […]

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Proma Chakraborty -August 2, 2018

Artist Sonali Pithawe’s work exhibits motifs of leaves on all her creations, to highlight the bond between human and nature She paints what she observes. Sonali Pithawe Chouhan is deeply affected by nature and her works reflect the same. Portraying the relationship between nature and humans, her creations are on display at the exhibition ‘Strength […]

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Proma Chakraborty -July 26, 2018

Meet a new breed of fearless social influencers who are taking Instagram by storm, one post at a time. From the ridiculous to the sublimely artistic, they have the ability to strike a chord with 18,000-48,000 followers No inhibitions. No filter. No photoshop. Meet the new Instagram generation who dares to bare it all in […]

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