Santanu Bose’s play with the final year students bearing the unwieldy title Kala Khatta Chuski Kholi Khokha Khopcha was staged in a never before used space in the premises; the open area adjoining the Abhimanch theatre.

As children, we all loved sketching and playing with crayons. Mixing those bright shades, the distorted human figures, the orange sun rising from between the green, “pointed” hills… these images were an intrinsic part of our childhood.

For someone growing up in the midst of nature — surrounded by lovely hills, dense forests, cultivated lands and beautiful riverbeds — a changing skyline characterised by an endless sea of grey buildings and an ever increasingly smoky, polluted sky can be quite a contrast, especially when you see this change every day from the 10th floor of your office. For Baroda-based artist Alok Bal, this is the sad reality.

One of the best things that life offers us is memories. Good, bad, ugly, exciting, indifferent, they eventually end up defining who we are and contextualising our self-image.

Art has the ability to hit directly at the heart. It can be more powerful than all the speeches and sloganeering because it is emotional.”
Poet-activist Tenzin Tsundue

Spirit of the Horse was the theme of an exhibition of artworks on horses by Sujata Dere recently held at Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francais.

In some or the other way, aren’t we all on present continuous voyages of discovery, which in retrospect are like passages of ones’ life?

Aeschylus’ play The Persians was presented by the NSD second year students at the open air space under the direction of Ovyakuli Khodjakkuli, the Uzbek director, translated to Hindi by Amitabh Srivast

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes — every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Traditional, classical and folk arts of African origin have for long been misunderstood and or barely understood by Western scholars who often referred to it as the “dark continent.”