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Amazing Mud Paintings On School Walls In Bihar

Every year, in the remote village of Sujata in one of India’s poorest states Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. Artists from Ind...

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Ranaut Let There Be Art: Petition Seeks Freedom To Sketch India's Monuments

Early last year, a group of around 20 people gathered at the ancient monolithic temples of Mammallapuram just outside Chennai. Armed with drawing pads, pencils and little else...

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Google Refuses Demand That It Take Down Gay Music Video

The Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB) has been unsuccessful in getting a music video pulled that shows the plight of many gay people in the country.The cover of Macklemo...

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How Female Artistes Are Turbocharging Their Live Shows

Record an album. Take it on tour, faithfully performing singles and favourites interspersed with old hits. Sell records. Repeat. That’s the basic formula.But, increasing...

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Chennai And All That Jazz

In the midst of a stage crammed with the usual musical paraphernalia, singers and instruments, aspiring musician and student ManickVennimalai is something of a lone wolf. The ...

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Moving Image

It is not easy to categories people like Aradhana Seth. Try confining them within boundaries; they will slip out of there before you even know it. Aradhana is a photographer, ...

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Nina Simone's Face

When I was kid, I knew what the worst parts of me were—my hair and my mouth. My hair was Happy. My lips were big. Nearly every kid around me knew something similar of th...

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Art For Gender Equality In India

After a jam-packed month of arts-based social projects in slum communities in Delhi and Mumbai through the Shanti Arts for Action project, it was time for new adventures throu...

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What Ballerina's Can Teach

In this series, The Huffington Post profiles some of the best ballet dancers in the world, working in some of the rarest and most unusual work environments imaginable, to try ...

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FYI: 25 Women Who Are Shaping The Future Of Music

What will the future of music look like? New York Times Magazine published an ambitious multimedia feature on Thursday that purported to answer that question, and apparently t...

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CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG

CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG The Elephant in the Room – and Beyond: S...

May 23 2026

KASHISH 2026 OPENS WITH JIMPA

At the 17th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival in Mumbai, the Norwegian film JIMPA, ...

May 22 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 5

In Prof Dr Piyush Roy’s Student City Part 5, a volatile night at a Pune B-School d...

May 21 2026