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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Empty pitches and stadiums make way for virtual gaming 

With sports all over the world coming to a halt during the Covid-19 crisis, esports have made a huge surge as people sit at homes The Covid-19 pandemic has stilled sports stadiums and arenas into silence, with players kept in lockdown. But in this environment, a tournament is taking place, with participation from players across […]

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Folk music What: Organised in collaboration with Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, India International Centre presents Borsa Band from Moldva, Romania. With musicians – Noemi Refi (violin), Katica Manninger (vocals), Peter Toth (flutes) and Oliver Toth (koboz) along with dancers Flora Csente, Gabriella Erdei, Mark Bence Dunai and Gergo Porvai. Moldva is a region in […]