By: Parul Sehgal In German, “original sin” is known as “inherited sin.” As a child, the artist Nora Krug found the concept instantly familiar — it was what being German...

By: Vaishna Roy It was five years ago that I stumbled upon Julian Peters’ online comic book version of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. It felt...

By: Chris Riddell The great power of poetry is its ability to distil thought, observation and emotion into a form that moves us profoundly. We turn to poetry to help...

BY: Rita Datta A welcome balance between age-old techniques and new-age technology at Svikriti assures purist and ‘techist’ alike that both have a place in contemporary Indian art; neither need...

BY: Ushnota Paul Jim Sarbh, who stood out as the terrifying terrorist Khalil in Ram Madhvani’s Neerja, plays one of two clowns in Rajat Kumar's stage production MacBeth: What Is...

By: Manasi Shah The description reads: “It was a very shabby house without any sort of facility... There was only one usable room where everybody and everything had to be...

By: Sameer Fida Hussain Coups, wars, bombings, suicide attacks and guerrillas are some of the words which come to mind when we talk about Afghanistan. The restive south Asian country...

By: Akshai Jain Some books just get under your skin. Like flagposts, they could draw and guide you at different points of your life. Others, especially religious works, lay the...

By: Bhaswati Chakravorty September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day. On that day this year, according to media reports, a 15-year-old girl in Aligarh set herself alight with kerosene after...

By: Shalini Sinha In India, festivals are the one thing that unite all castes, genders, races and classes. Festival week is the true mirror to the saying ‘unity in diversity’....