THE JITENDRA ARYA RETROSPECTIVE

“Photography begins with the marriage of two minds – the dreamers and the technicians.” Arya on photographing Nehru.

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Laughter in Lahore

Despite its image as a repressed nation torn by turmoil, Pakistan's alternative art movement is slowly making heads turn. Auratnaak, an all-women group of comedy a...

Marriage-Go-Round

The North Indian pre-wedding ritual of the Ladies Sangeet, at which women gathered together to sing (some raunchy songs) an dance, minus the men. The cus...

Dekmental Festival - in search of new Music

Dekmantel festival, a raver heaven. It is a three-day electronic music festival set in a woodland park in Amsterdam in early August. Very close to nature, with an easily ac...

Your Favourite Influencers Are Not Writing Their Own Content; These Women Are

For a 22-year-old aspiring writer, it seemed like the perfect gig. Faith Xue had just graduated from USC when she was offered a job as Assistant Editor at Los Angeles-based...

In The Burgeoning World Of Virtual Reality, Storytelling Is Both Cutting-Edge & Old-Fashioned

Over the last several years, the Sundance Film Festival has been an early adopter, and key champion, of bringing virtual-reality content into the world of film. What had on...

Richie Sambora Leads Innovative Humanitarian Funding

Richie Sambora, co-founder of csnaps.org, hosted the official launch this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. Csnaps creates powerful connections betwee...

Bill Gates Lists His Favourite Books Of 2016

Bill Gates has apparently been a big reader all along, even during his Microsoft days. On his site, Gates Notes, he writes, “I’ve been reading about a book a we...

Manipuri film ‘Ima Sabitri’ opens non-feature section

‘Ishti’, the opening feature film for the Indian Panorama, is set in the mid-twentieth century Kerala, when young Namboothiri Brahmins successfully challenged t...