The focus of advertisements has definitely shifted to regional languages.

Getting an artist to create works with the walls of a gallery as canvas is a grit-filled reckoning and only the likes of Renu Modi could have pulled off this articulation with so much verve.

A tour of Pankaj Mistry’s photo display in New Delhi underpins the sentiment that photography might soon become a surrogate for paintings.

Manipur maybe culturally the richest state in the Northeast, but the evolution of contemporary theatre has caught up more in Assam.

Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in everyone, at least one black spot which he or she has to keep concealed.”

Many moons ago, S.C. Sekhar regaled photography lovers in Delhi with a few brilliant black and white pictures shot in the bylanes of Kerala’s villages and tea shops.

As a child I remember old movie posters announcing the ‘Silver Jubilee’ of a film. This was when a movie reached 25 weeks of playing in a cinema.

Shaking dust from my shoes, there’s a road ahead, and there’s no way back home....
(Lyrics of Leaving Home by Queen)

Do you know why Vatsyayan wrote Kamasutra? To sell scented oils to white people! Or so says popular New York-based stand-up comedian Vidur Kapur, who will have you in splits with more quirky answers like this one. Originally a Delhi boy, Kapur’s comedy is a heart-wrenching mix of theatrics, pathos, irony, self-depreciating humour,

Having given its ritual call to boycot Independence Day 2010 in the north-eastern region, with threats of attacks and some bomb blasts preceding it, the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) — which has been trying desperately to regroup under the aegis of its elusive boss Paresh Baruah — has tied up with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and is attempting to garner support from Manipur-based terrorist groups. The Ulfa and the NDFB are engaging the Manipur People’s Liberation