Moneycontrol Weekend Selects: Top stories this evening

A compilation of top weekend reads to keep you informed of the latest trending stories.

Year Ender 2023: 10 art world & film festival controversies in India and abroad this year

The incursion of Hamas into Israel on October 7 and reportedly killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages and the Israeli attack on Gaza that resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 people so far, including women and children, divided the world of art in the last months of 2023 with resignations and withdrawals dominating headlines at art institutions and events. Read more.

Politics and aesthetics joined hands at Serendipity Arts Residency 2023

Entering one of the rooms at the exhibit of the Serendipity Arts Residency 2023 in Panjim, Goa, one is struck by a feeling of entrapment on seeing a life-size bamboo structure with sound and light as accompaniments. The installation, a work by Assamese artist Sewali Deka underlines the captive quandary of tea-estates and the region’s continued marginalisation. Read more.

‘Evil Eye’ book review: Palestinian-American Etaf Rum’s novel explores the true meaning of freedom and feminism

Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye comes after her successful debut A Woman is No Man (2019). Evil Eye tells the story of Yara, born to a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn and her journey towards finding her own identity. Expansive and easy to read, this is Yara’s attempt to reconcile her past dreams and her present self. Read more.

Kashmiri Kahwa recipe to try, as cold wave prevails in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana

Samovars brewing Kashmiri kahwa are a common sight in markets and homes in J&K during the long Kashmiri winter. The traditional Kashmiri tea is flavoured with cardamom and infused with liquorice, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and arnebia benthamii, commonly known as Kahzaban, to warm the body up as the snow paints the Valley white. More here.

Why the fake art market isn't going anywhere

In 2004, the art world was about a year away from experiencing its biggest boom in post-liberalisation India. As a result, a new-found interest was being seen in what had until then been a milieu of a lower lux, a world in which money and paintings exchanged hands gently—largely in the confines of the rarefied enclave of South Mumbai. Read more.