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Art aids the spirit of survival: 'Venice of the East' hosts South Asia's largest-ever contemporary art show
After India's first biennale made Fort Kochi its home, Alappuzha's historic coir warehouses have now metamorphosed into powerhouses of Indian contemporary art.
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Record-breaking sales animate the Indian art market during the pandemic
Modern masters, traditional buyers and tech money have combined to make an energised Indian art market a safe bet in these uncertain times.
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Cannes Film Festival 2021: Filmmakers reflect on the struggles of people in a pandemic-hit world
The stirring line-up of films from around the world at the 74th Cannes film festival mirrors a society hit hard by the pandemic, racism, gender injustice and inequalities.
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Indian stories at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, from July 6-17
A documentary on Delhi's air quality, an epistolary movie, and a film project about a single man's protest against a statue in Kolkata represent Indian cinema at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
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South Asian diaspora are at the forefront of Canada's response to Covid-19
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Police violence, inner workings of power put under the scanner in artist-filmmaker Pallavi Paul's 'The Blind Rabbit'
Premiered at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this week, 'The Blind Rabbit' looks at the Emergency, 1984 riots, 2019 Jamia Library attack and the 2020 Delhi riots.
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'The National Museum is an archive of time, it is inhuman to erase its history': artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari
As president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation, Bose Krishnamachari knows a few things about bringing historical architectural sites to life. He presents some arguments against demolishing The National Museum in Delhi.
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Chhello Show director Pan Nalin on doffing his hat to the Lumiere Brothers and shooting in Gir and Kathiawad in a pandemic year
"Honestly, at first, art has no importance when you have people dying in the street... But someday when that suffering slows down, then your aching needs art."
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Kerala model for gender parity in cinema, with a first-of-its-kind inclusion initiative
Two young women filmmakers have been quietly working in Kerala during the pandemic to rewrite gender equations in the male-dominated Indian film industry.
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CONTAGION: Science meets art to understand a pandemic
An online art exhibition opening April 30 at the new Science Gallery in Bengaluru will take viewers on an incisive journey through the history and science of outbreaks.
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Dance therapy comes to the aid of COVID-19 frontline workers, survivors, caregivers and families of victims
Organised by the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India and Project Barefoot Dance, US, dance therapists hope to address pain, stress and grief in ten free online sessions during April-July
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From Madhya Pradesh's forest village to his Parisian home, artist SH Raza represented the plurality of India
Exhibitions in 100 Indian cities, art school scholarships and a major show at Pompidou Centre in Paris to mark birth centenary celebrations of the master artist
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Indian art galleries join global frenzy for NFT artwork with new blockchain ventures
Non-fungible token-based artworks are now a global craze, but a silent revolution to rewrite rules in India's fledgling digital art market has already been underway. Several Indian artists have been dabbling in digital art for at least a decade.
SPORTS-TRENDS
Football Biopics: Films reveal politics, pitfalls of fame, childhood trauma and resilience
New documentaries on Pele, Maradona, Tevez and Rafinha are released on streaming platforms.
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Art and Dissent: Young Indian artists respond to farmers' protests in their new works
Artists weigh up livelihood losses, disappearing seeds and traditional knowledge to address the ongoing protests against new farm laws.
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Even the most dominant species can go extinct when the environment quickly changes: Paleontologist Steve Brusatte
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte speaks with Moneycontrol on the context of dinosaurs in the pandemic-hit world.
INTERVIEW
Interview | There needs to be much more support for and recognition of translators as co-creators: Jayasree Kalathil
Kalathil, the translator of Malayalam writer S Hareesh's 2020 JCB Prize for Literature-winning Moustache speaks about the process of translating a literary work.
BUSINESS
Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Avni Doshi among speakers as Jaipur Lit Fest goes virtual
The coronavirus pandemic, racism and nationalism and, of course, books will be talked about at the 14th edition of the popular literature festival that will be held from February 19-28.
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Film Review | Misbehaviour raises a stink about eternal male establishment
The new British movie released in India on January 22 revisits the famous protest at the 1970 Miss World Beauty contest in London by women's rights activists.
TECHNOLOGY
Digital divide puts quality of this year’s degrees in serious doubt
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the faultlines in the country's higher education hampered by a frightening gap between the haves and have-nots.
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Closer home is the future: The new filmmaking model during the pandemic is community-based cinema
The new model is necessitated by a knotty setting in the film industry today. For film professionals, crossing state borders is no longer a breeze. And money for productions is not easy to find.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Survival to Revival: North-East set to lead tourism rebound in India in the New Year
Aided by its stunningly diverse culture and landscape, the North-East region comprising Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura is hoping the tourism sector hit hard by a global pandemic would switch gears in 2021.
INDIA
2020: An unlikely year of honours for Indian Cinema
Top prizes at major international film festivals capped the journey of a pandemic-hit Indian cinema in 2020.
WORLD
An unlikely year of honours for Indian Cinema
Top prizes at major international film festivals capped the journey of a pandemic-hit Indian cinema in 2020.
