SPORTS
FIFA Women's World Cup 2023: Rural football raises the stakes for the women's game in India
Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district is running the country's biggest rural football league that is discovering talent and spreading social change.
ENTERTAINMENT
One Nation, One Digital Library: India sets its eyes on libraries of the future
One Nation, One Digital Library vision to get a boost with the first-ever Festival of Libraries by the Ministry of Culture at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi during August 5-6.
ART
Delhi retrospective | How Shanti Dave became an abstractionist painter in a newly-independent India
'Neither Earth Nor Sky', the first-ever retrospective of the Baroda Group of Artists member and one of the country's earliest abstractionist painters opens at the DAG, New Delhi.
ENTERTAINMENT
11 football films to watch during FIFA Women's World Cup 2023
From gender and human rights to freedom and equality, movies around the Beautiful Game mirror the many paradoxes of modern society.
SPORTS
Sara Abdullah Pilot: ‘Football for adolescent girls is a gamechanger for gender equity’
The AIFF women’s committee former chairperson and CEQUIN chairperson and co-founder on Sport for Development and training girls from under-resourced communities in football. Over the last 12 years, 231,000 girls and women have participated in football programmes conducted by CEQUIN.
ART
75 years on, the Progressive Artists Group redux in a Delhi exhibition
The works of FN Souza, SH Raza, KH Ara, HA Gade, MF Husain and Sadanand K Bakre come together for the first time, at Delhi's Triveni Kala Sangam, after their July 1949 exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai.
SPORTS
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: How Indian women’s football was built on barefoot dreams
As the countdown begins to the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand (July 20-August 20), former Indian players look back on the journey of the national women's football team.
ENVIRONMENT
Bonn climate conference | 'Climate finance for developing countries is a major bottleneck'
Climate activist Harjeet Singh on the Bonn climate meet, climate finance and the responsibilities of developed countries, and the loss and damage fund.
ENTERTAINMENT
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan: ‘Filmmaking is not an analytical exercise for me’
Celebrated Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose latest film 'About Dry Grasses' was in the prestigious competition section of last month's 76th Cannes Film Festival, talks about its making, what influences his filmmaking, and Turkey.
ENTERTAINMENT
'The presence of India this year was strong': Cannes festival's Marché du Film's Guillaume Esmiol
Cannes Film Festival's film market Marché du Film's newly minted executive director Guillaume Esmiol on bringing innovation to the film market, the India pavilion, and Artificial Intelligence in filmmaking.
ENTERTAINMENT
Scenes from Ukraine in Cannes: Cowed children, abandoned animals and fleeing families
Polish documentary filmmaker Maciek Hamela's 'In the Rearview', a heartrending account of the cost of war, showed at a parallel selection of the recent 76th Cannes Film Festival.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sunny Leone at Cannes 2023: ‘It’s shocking to have feedback where there was silence before’
Actor Sunny Leone’s Charlie laughs her way into Indian cinema lore with her transitionary role in Anurag Kashyap's neo-noir thriller, ‘Kennedy’, starring Rahul Bhat in titular role.
TECHNOLOGY
Satori-5, world’s first AI filmmaker at the 76th Cannes Film Festival
Satori-5, brainchild of Quinn Halleck, opens the door for AI in filmmaking, new possibilities for content creation, production and exhibition in the global entertainment industry.
ENTERTAINMENT
76th Cannes Film Festival: How Liv Ullmann became documentary filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar’s muse
Pune-born director Dheeraj Akolkar's new documentary film, 'Liv Ullmann — A Road Less Travelled', premiered in Cannes Classics, at the 76th Cannes film festival
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Youth is the focus of cinematic gaze at the world
Pedro Almodovar's second English language film, Kore-eda Hirokazu's new movie, Wim Wenders' portrait of an artist and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Kurdish drama garner attention in the opening week of the 76th Cannes film festival.
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Another year without an Indian film vying for the Golden Palm
Kanu Behl’s ‘Agra’ and Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Kennedy’, and a few others, take India to the high table of world cinema at the 76th Cannes film festival to be held from May 16-27.
ART
Air India art collection: First public viewing of ‘Maharaja’s treasure’ in Mumbai
The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, will host the exhibition of selected works from the art collection of Air India retained by the government after the airline’s sale to the Tatas.
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Asian and African cinema lead in post-pandemic revival
The midnight screening of Anurag Kashyap's new feature, Kennedy, and movies from such disparate destinations as Sudan, Congo, Senegal and Mongolia to present a new order of world cinema at the 76th Cannes film festival next month.
LIFESTYLE
Mallika Sarabhai: ‘There won’t be any gender or caste discrimination in Kalamandalam’
Kerala Kalamandalam’s new chancellor, the Ahmedabad-based classical dancer-activist, will bring her years of experience of running Darpana Academy of Performing Arts to Thrissur’s nearly-century-old arts institution, and has already instituted gender-equal changes on the campus.
FEATURES
Bihar’s Bicycle Didi who has spent a lifetime with the Musahars
This Dalit History Month, training the spotlight on Sudha Varghese, who travelled from Kerala to Bihar as a teenager to live with the Musahar community, considered Dalits among the Dalits in the country, five decades ago. She never left
TRENDS
Tribute: Vivan Sundaram pushed the limits of art and the artists he mentored
Vivan Sundaram (1943-2023) changed art practice and awareness in the country through his work and activism. Contemporary artists remember his contributions.
TRENDS
Vivan Sundaram (1943-2023): The man who took art to the street in India
A friend, mentor and critic to fellow artists, Vivan Sundaram changed art practice and awareness in the country through his work and activism.
TRENDS
What drives Bengal's 'Bike Ambulance Dada'?
Karimul Hak, a former tea garden worker, saves lives every day in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal with his ingenious transport for medical emergencies.
TRENDS
International Booker longlist | Perumal Murugan: 'I'm writing the dialogue for a feature film based on Pyre'
After last year’s win, Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand), the International Booker Prize 2023 has longlisted this week Perumal Murugan’s 2016 Tamil novel, Pookuzhi (Pyre), translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, a searing indictment of India’s caste system.
