Gurgaon, the Millennium City, is going to be the new cultural hotspot as Kingdom of Dreams, India’s answer to Broadway, starts its reign this month.

The monsoon has hit Mumbai shores. But elsewhere in the world, summer is blooming. And with summer comes theatre festivals; particularly of the fringe kind.

“Subrata to Cesar is about the distance between the two goalkeepers. It is about the distance between the state of Indian football and what football is to a country like Brazil,” says artist Riyas Komu about a historic solo show which opened at Maskara Gallery in Mumbai last week.

RANCHI HAS been the land of struggle.

The Saffronart auction, and Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London, seem to have brought back the sparkle in the art world.

She mentions Van Gogh as her favourite, likes to explore new places and dwells in semi-abstract paintings. Meet Smeetha Bhoumik who describes herself “as an intuitive artist who has painted forever”.

She took the Nepali artscape by surprise when her series, “Symphony Of Forms And Fragments”, hit the Hindu-majority nation with a spank of gritty resilience.

It was most unexpected: the Ramayana playing in Washington DC.

An unknown alchemist has strained a thorough concoction for ages.

Viewing paintings and sculptures at the Art Indus Gallery in the Santushti Complex in New Delhi makes one realise that an audience is unconsciously aware of the profound aesthetics expressed in painti