Filmmaker Praveen Mochchale gives an insight into the challenges of making indie films and his way of storytelling National Award-winning filmmaker Praveen Mochchale’s third feature Widow of Silence refuses to slow down on the international festival circuit. Having already won accolades at Kolkata International Film Festival, MOOOV Festival, Belgium and Indian Film Festival of Los […]

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Shreyasi Gopinath is one of the youngest professional practitioners of Bharatanatyam and a teacher. She has made it big in the world of classical dance Shreyasi Gopinath, 27, a modern girl who likes to party with friends, is a regular to Monkey Bar. But that’s where her similarity with a typical Delhi girl ends. She […]

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Folktronica singers Hari and Sukhmani talk about their musical journey and the relevance of folk music today A trained Hindustani classical vocalist from the Rampur Gharana, Sukhmani Malik has a voice dense with character, that doesn’t fail to strike you as powerful. Hari Singh, a producer and audio engineer, has electronic skills tuned finely to […]

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Charmaine O’ Brien has spent 20 years understanding India through its cuisine. This Australian food historian is now working on her fourth book about Indian food Food historian Charmaine O’ Brien was an invitee at Himalayan Echoes: Kumaon Festival of Literature & Arts in Nainital. Her travels around India have been chronicled in The Penguin […]

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Deepa lives a frugal life and helps people barter instead of buy. Her life is her message Very early in Deepa’s life, her parents came to the conclusion that their daughter is “strange” to put it mildly. She doesn’t exist in the normative shell, instead breaks it all the time to assert how unsustainable human […]

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For anyone living in the Capital, the first thought that comes to their mind when they hear the word ‘magenta’ would be the Metro lines. Taking a cue from this and paying a tribute to the same, Centre for Art and Free Expression (CAFE) in Jamia Nagar named their gallery space Gallery Magenta.

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Dhiraj Singh quit a promising career in journalism to be an artist and leads an interesting life with his wife and eight-year-old son as partners in his artistic endeavours Dhiraj Singh, 45, has made unusual choices in life. He follows his heart and perhaps that explains why he quit journalism after 15 years of working […]

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Sunil Singh runs arguably the biggest shelter for abandoned cows — shri Mata ji Gaushala — in the world. He gives insights on what it means to take care of cows and not politicise her to cash in on votes Sunil Singh claims he runs the biggest cow shelter in the world where sacred bovines […]

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