When my friend artist-poet Sangeeta Gupta invited me for her show “Lines of Light” that is being inaugurated by the former President of India Dr A.P.J.

I am not and never have been very much of an academic. Therefore it was with great trepidation that I accepted an invitation last month, from the China Art Academy, to be part of a symposium to help formulate a new “multi-disciplinary art course.”

American pop star Rihanna on Wednesday won her legal battle in UK high court against fashion retailer Topshop, owned by billionaire entrepreneur Sir Philip Green, over T-shirts bearing her image.

I hate sequels and that is why I hate watching soaps on television. The way serials leave the viewer high and dry literally and metaphorically is not amusing at all.

The Rang festival organised by the Film and Theatre Society is in full swing at various venues in the capital. The action began with plays by Ekjut of Mumbai. The plays were nostalgia personified.

When two strangers meet and connect through a conversation, then chances are that either they start liking each other or they don’t have any vibe at all. If they gel well, then their growing fondness might give way to a lifelong friendship or else, they just move on with their lives.

An art show usually evokes pictures of a spacious art gallery, with each painting adorning the walls telling its own story.

Most of us have grown up listening to stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were part of the story-telling repertoire of our grandparents and parents but are increasingly given the go b

Karl Lagerfeld, a German fashion designer, artist and photographer had said: “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” And photojournalist, Ted Grant went on to say: “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes.

They draw with light. That’s why they are called Lightscribers. Photography is their passion, but programming is their profession. So marking their journey from the sector of IT to the field of creativity, a set of 10 snappers mark out their vision on descriptive frames at a group show in Kolkata’s Gallery Gold.