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Raghu Rai: ‘Let’s face it, half of India lives on the streets. That social thread of daily life, we can’t ignore’
'At least half of the works in this exhibition have never been seen by the public before,' says the award-winning veteran photographer and photojournalist about the ongoing retrospective of his works, 'Raghu Rai: A Thousand Lives — Photographs from 1965-2005', at Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
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Oscars 2024: The ‘India story’ continues to dazzle Oscars’ documentary category
The nomination for Indian-Canadian director Nisha Pahuja's To Kill a Tiger this week marks a remarkable run for India-related documentary films at the Academy Awards in recent years. More documentaries from and on India have earned Academy nominations than Indian feature films.
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India Art Fair 2024: Iranian artist perforates ideas of body through experimental photography
Tehran-based visual artist Zahra Yazdani's first solo show in India, Scripted Selves: Sutures of Signs and Symbols at Latitude 28 gallery in Delhi maps human body's capacity for feelings.
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Humans are endlessly curious and innovative, as small inventions show us: Roma Agrawal
Nuts & Bolts: How the invention of tiny nails, spring, magnet, lens, string, wheel and pump defined the world of complex technology.
TECHNOLOGY
How 7 small inventions define complex technology & machines
At 47th International Kolkata Book Fair, January 18-31, British structural engineer Roma Agrawal talks about her new book ‘Nuts and Bolts’ on small inventions that made possible complex machines: nail, wheel, spring, magnet, lens, string, pump
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Ayodhya: Earthquake hazard tests for Ram Mandir matched those for big dams & nuclear power plants
Scientists from CSIR's National Geophysical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, used state-of-the-art tools and technology to suggest engineering bedrock against earthquakes up to magnitude 8 on the Richter Scale for 1,000 years.
ENTERTAINMENT
Israeli director making movie based on bestselling Iranian book
The Syrian Bride director Eran Riklis' new project in post-production is based on expelled Iranian writer Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran.
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Oscars 2024: When two former JNU students were vying for the same Oscar award last year
Two former students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi were both nominees for the 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
INDIA
Ayodhya Ram Temple: How CBRI constructed the first fire- & flood-resistant tent for makeshift structure three decades ago
A team of scientists from the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee was involved in the design modification of Ram Mandir based on 3-D structural analysis.
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Year Ender 2023: 10 art world & film festival controversies in India and abroad this year
From Sudipto Sen's Kerala Story to antiquities stolen from British Museum, the world of art was shaken by several major controversies in 2023.
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President Droupadi Murmu shows how Artificial Intelligence can revolutionise future of art museums in India
State-run cultural institutions, and galleries like Navachara in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, are leading the way in technological innovations for an immersive experience for museum visitors in India.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sudan wishes for farewell to violence with award-winning film Goodbye Julia
Amid the Sudan war and Darfur genocide, comes Goodbye Julia, a beacon of hope for healing and unity, the first Sudanese film to screen and win the prestigious Un Certain Regard Prize at 2023 Cannes Film Festival, but it failed to find a place on the Oscar longlist of 15 entries for Best Foreign Language Film prize announced on December 21.
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Spotlight on films from Palestine
The 10-film 'Window on Palestine' programme at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt (December 14-21) includes Farah Nabulsi's The Teacher, Ambulance, Bye Bye Tiberias, Drawing for Better Dreams and Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family.
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Kerala Literature Festival 2024: Books to build bonds in India's City of Literature
Turkey is the guest country at the seventh edition of Kerala Literature Festival to be held in Kozhikode from January 11 to 14.
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Shashi Tharoor: 'People in Kerala had the habit of reading world literature in Malayalam language. Now Malayalam books are being translated into other languages'
Tharoor, author and Congress member of Parliament talks about what has changed for Malayalam literature to become hugely successful in translations today.
ART
10 artists pay tribute to poet-art scholar Keshav Malik on his birth centenary
Art community come together to celebrate Delhi Art Society founder's contribution to Indian art in 23 sculptures at the India International Centre in Delhi (December 7-21).
ART
Delhi Art Week 2023: Art brings people together for dialogue about diversity
From street art to sculptures to installations, Delhi Art Week presents a united front of the art community in its third edition, December 1-10.
TRENDS
11 controversies that gripped IFFI, India’s top film festival, at this edition and in the past
Nearly two decades after Panaji became the permanent venue of International Film Festival of India, the high-profile event continues to be plagued by controversies.
ENTERTAINMENT
Food & Film: Italian film historian Stefano Francia Di Celle uncovers cinema & cuisine's mutual bond of cultural expression
'Food is something that unites everybody,' says Stefano Francia Di Celle, who curated a film festival on the theme of food as part of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World (November 21-24) held at Delhi's Italian Institute of Culture.
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IFFI 2023: An all-woman village football club scores against stereotypes & orthodoxy
Manipuri language documentary 'Andro Dreams', which opens the non-feature film section of Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India, Goa next week, shows a path for respect and unity.
INDIA
Kozhikode: How Malabar’s creative hub became the world’s City of Literature
Just named City of Literature by UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Kerala's coastal city of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut) packs centuries of knowledge, cultural expressions and diversity.
ENTERTAINMENT
Bangladesh’s Mostofa Sarwar Farooki: ‘Something Like An Autobiography is hyper-real, the film straddles reality and fiction’
The auteur melds the fact-fiction divide in 'Something Like An Autobiography', which was part of Icons: South Asia at the just concluded Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
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Jio MAMI 2023: Art unshackles marginal identities & boundaries in three debuts at Mumbai Film Festival
Mumbai Film Festival's South Asia Competition, Focus South Asia entries Dilli Dark, Pushtaini and Sahela rip open a modern society's biases and prejudices.
ENTERTAINMENT
Jio MAMI 2023 | Vinay Forrt’s Malayalam film Aattam lands punches at patriarchy, no holds barred
Debutant Malayalam director Anand Ekarshi's Aattam (The Play), part of Focus South Asia at Mumbai Film Festival, explores the hideous gender politics in society.
