Culture & Books

Proma Chakraborty -May 17, 2018

French artist Michel Testard is in Delhi with an exhibition of his paintings of India created over two decades With an engineering degree from Paris followed by an MBA from INSEAD, Michel Testard never knew he would end up as a painter in India. One visit to the country, and he was inspired to go […]

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Proma Chakraborty -May 10, 2018

Here’s a radical idea: an evening of food tasting and socialising with people with or without disability, blindfolded Love in the age of Tinder doesn’t come easily to the differently abled. But with the new app on the block—Inclov —people with disability can get a shot to find their perfect match. Most dating apps currently […]

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Proma Chakraborty -May 3, 2018

Playwright Happy Ranajit brings you a drama which raises an important question: Is love a crime? “Bhooton ke tarah nahi jeena humein” (We do not want to live like ghosts). This is one of the several compelling lines that captures the attention of the audience watching A Straight Proposal, a drama based on the LGBT […]

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Proma Chakraborty -April 26, 2018

An exhibition of photographs, 50 of them taken in India, tell the tale of patients who still carry a stigma because of their disease “I have to play dead so that my family can live in their village without stigma,” reads the quote of one of the many emotive photographs at the leprosy photo exhibition […]

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