The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a meeting of theatrical communities and music from around the world. Their offerings are as varied as the artist’s imagination and skills. However within the artist’s control lies a responsibility; that they are ambassadors of India.

Once upon a time, there were no cameras. And people used to paint all that was needed to be recorded — be it landscapes or portraits of people or monuments.

It’s an ongoing record of her experiences about the world and its impressions embossed on her mind. Echoes, she says is her “way of looking at the past, the present and the future”. Add to this, the “several eternal patterns seen in human life, history, behaviour, relationships, character and characteristics”.

From a photograph of an Alabama cotton picker’s wife to scenes of urban poverty, the photographs of Walker Evans, on display in a new exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), shaped Americans’ view of the Great Depression.

It is no secret that theatre in Maximum City is “booming.” There are more troupes, plays, designers, actors, reviews (albeit on line), audiences and spaces than ever before in the theatrical history of our tiny island.

My friend is a neatness freak. One of his daily rituals at home is to meticulously fold the heavily thumped and crushed newspaper at the end of the day, restoring it as far as possible to its morning, pressed & un-crumpled condition.

It is marriage season in my family and nieces and nephews and even cousins are getting married this winter; some of them even getting married the second time – classic cases of triumph of hope over experience — but of that another time!

The play Char Rang was presented at the Kamani Auditorium by the Hindi Academy by four directors who chose 13 stories out of the 40 tales selected by the Academy representing the entire gamut of the g

From a single image to plurality of ideas, his journey takes an interesting route on the artscape of ideas. The streak of his individualism is well-manifested even in his collage of many canvases.

A piece of concrete can be a life changing reality. Palestinians realised this truth when Israel built the Separation Wall around the West Bank.