The dignity — and fun — of labour

During the pandemic, young people in Germany are finding interesting ways to come together, help each other, and in the process, party like never before The pandemic has changed the way we interact, as each of us is a potential threat to the other. In Europe, after a fairly intense couple of months, the situation […]

Small paper, big impact

In times of Covid, a community newspaper – Mylapore Times — holds lessons for Big Media Vincent D’Souza, 60, the owner-editor of Mylapore Times, has the beard and belly of a middle-aged St Nick, the energy of a Duracell bunny, the mind of a bean-counting businessman, and the ticker of a hustling city reporter. In times […]

Event of the Week

Israel connect  What: Featuring the works of two leading contemporary artists from Israel, Dani Karavan and Atar Geva, an online exhibition brings together their work in a show titled ‘Plain Abstract’. They met at Givat Haviva (non-profit education centre founded in 1949) in its home for art, the GH Art Gallery. Growing into and out […]

Rising star falls

Suraj Chavan, 18, became one of Maharashtra’s most popular TikTok stars, with 15 lakh followers. His dream was to rebuild his one-room house It was one o’clock in the afternoon. Heavy clouds gathered over a vast expanse of farmland in the tiny village of Modhve in Maharashtra’s Baramati. In the shade of a tin roof […]

Events of the Week

In retrospect What: Focussing on the history of exhibitions of the last 10 years, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has made accessible to a global audience some of the early exhibitions, by revisiting and retro-fitting it for a virtual experience. Titled ‘Visions of Interiority’ by Rameshwar Broota, the project refrains from becoming a simple walkthrough […]

Events of the Week

Ode to Nature  What: Vadehra Art Gallery is back with live exhibitions. Titled ‘A World Of One’s Own’, the group show features works of artists Chameli Ramachandran, A Ramachandran, Paramjit Singh, Arpita Singh, Benodebehari Mukherjee and Gieve Patel. It appears as travelogues, or excursions into nature, with romantic undertones scoring the choreographies of terrains and […]

Neither big nor fat, the new Indian wedding

Amidst the disruption of normal lives by the Coronavirus, marriages are making a comeback without the usual pomp and show The pandemic brought on by Covid-19 has reshaped our reality. As people are coming to terms with the ‘new normal’, social events like marriages are making a comeback. In India, weddings have always been an […]

No hangouts, no hookups, more stargazing

Millennials, amid the pandemic, seem to have travelled back in time – taking pleasure in the simple joys of life in a world that has slowed down ‘Weekends’ – this word held a special significance for millennials like us until the pandemic happened. The pre-Corona world was a different one – and we all are […]