Ditzy Divorcee

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi’s one-woman show, Drama Queen may not advance the cause of women, but at least it turns one woman’s loneliness and bafflement ...

Welcome To Dharavi Art Room – A Safe, Colourful Space Where Children Come To Draw, Paint, & Explore

A colourful room in a slum, where women and children come to work together, forget all their problems, and create art – that’s Dharavi Art Room for you. Set up ...

Underprivileged Children In Jaipur Can Now Sell Their Paintings Online. Thanks To A 17-Year-Old.

Manav Kedia, a 17-year-old resident of Jaipur, has launched a website to sell paintings made by underprivileged children. An aspiring artist, Manav is motivated towards wor...

#Traveltales: Exploring Naya, Bengal’s Village Of Singing Painters

An intricate tapestry of music and visual art is what makes Naya more than just a village in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapore district. A quaint little village, Naya i...

Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist From Bhopal Was Picked To Paint Scenes For A Film On Van Gogh

Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is mo...

Sonam Kapoor: I'm Inspired By Women From All Walks Of Life

Sonam Kapoor says she is inspired by women from all walks of life, including her mother Sunita, poet and nationalist leader Sarojini Naidu and Hollywood actresses like Mery...

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

Kajal Singh Wow's Berlin With Her Striking Street Art

Graffiti and street art may be considered a nuisance by many but it has slowly made its way to being considered a legitimate art form around the world.  One of the fir...

“An artclass on the footpath…”

Interns Pranoy Shaiva and Shreyas Nair contributed both words and photographs for this writeup.

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