Sunday, January 24, 2016

City Lights 1

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(Mumbai -pic courtesy Ketish Kothari) A city lives in and by reminiscing done by people significant and insignificant, conspicuous and...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

From Rohith Vemula to Chintan Upadhyay and Back: Lack of Steam in Indian Art or Artists?

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(Chintan Upadhyay) How big the contemporary artists are in today’s India? From within the limited constituency of fine arts the cultur...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Rohith Vemula’s Suicide: No Longer He a Game Changer in the Dalit Struggle

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(late Rohith Vemula) We need a death to value life. We need a suicide to demand equal rights and justice. Today, the others’ death is ...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Death of a Hermit- Jeram Patel (1930-2016)

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(Young Jeram Patel, pic by Jyoti Bhatt) I was a jealous lover; and still I am. Jeram Patel was not. He had learnt the method of lettin...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Art and the Art of Walking

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(Subodh Gupta's work at the NGMA, New Delhi, at night) A city is many cities. Depending on where you stand your view of the city i...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Should Salman Khan’s Enigmatic Nature be a Problem to Us?

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(Latest book on Salman 'Being Salman' by Jasim Khan) The most famous celebrities are the most lonely people on this earth. The...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Try These New Year Resolutions: Exclusively for Artists and other Art Players (2016)

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Let me start with a cliché: New Year resolutions are broken sooner than later. It is exactly like the proverbial drunkard’s promise un...