The mystery of Ankit Sharma’s Death

Reports on the IB staffer’s gruesome killing couldn’t agree on the basic facts and omitted some crucial context IN THE past week, 49 people were killed in communal violence in North East Delhi. One death received a larger slice of media focus: that of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was retrieved from […]

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UNCONVENTIONAL FORM Art curator Simran KS Lamba has organised an exhibition titled “Metamorphosis of Formations in Tar” on mixed media art – a term that has been exhaustively used to describe the alignment of any two-separate media on the same base. Lamba’s work span over a decade, with ‘tar’ being her primary medium. Its lucid […]

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ODE TO A LEGEND What: A grandson’s ode to a grandmother, “Amma: Memories of My Grandmother” is a site-specific audio-visual performance by Revanta Sarabhai. Presented by the Gujral Foundation, it captures fragments of memories of his grandmother, the world-renowned Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016), demystifying the pioneering figure to reveal the woman behind the legend. Mrinalini Sarabhai […]

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BEST OF CLASSIC What: Organising yet another memorable evening of music, Pracheen Kala Kendra is back at the Capital, to the delight of the music lovers. In this high-octane evening of musical brilliance, Ustad Usman Khan is going to present his adept performance on Sitar. His musical performance will be perfectly accompanied by Ustad Rafiuddin […]

Who caused the mayhem at Gargi College?

Students at Delhi women’s college were allegedly molested after a large group of men gate-crashed its annual festival last week. The police have arrested 10 people so far LAST WEEK, Delhi University’s Gargi College celebrated its annual festival, Reverie. On the third day, February 6, however, festivity turned to horror as a group of men […]

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REELING BACK What: Born in 1903 in Munich, Josef Wirsching came to India in 1925 while working as a cinematographer on Light of Asia for Emelka Film studio, which was produced by Indian Himanshu Rai and shot entirely on location in India. Wirsching was impressed and beguiled by India, and nearly a decade later when […]

THIS IS NO MODEL ZOO

If wildlife conservation and research is the purpose of animal parks, Delhi Zoo needs to pull up its socks  NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL Park in Delhi is a beautifully planned zoo. It was made with a vision — it would have state-of-the-art facilities and management practices and be a role model for other zoos in the country, […]

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WEAVING ART What: Born in 1957 in a family of dyers and washer folk in Tripura, Ajit Kumar Das is a renowned master of natural dyes using the traditional ‘kalam’ (a hand crafted bamboo reed). His works are on display at the exhibition titled, ‘The Art of Hand Painted Textiles’. This selection of hand painted […]