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Dharamshala International Film Festival at 15: The little festival that became a big deal
As the Dharamshala International Film Festival returns for its 15th edition, founders Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam and programming director Bina Paul discuss keeping it independent, making room for difficult cinema and reaching audiences beyond the festival
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‘Women sculptors have transformed the discipline’s conceptual, material and ethical horizons’: Nainvi Vora
The curator of Gallery Espace’s show, Sculpting Lineages: Women Across Generations, on bringing six women artists across nearly seven decades into conversation, and rethinking how the history of Indian sculpture has been written
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Vikram Goyal on taking his fantastical Ramayana-inspired collection, Wings and Tales, to London’s Mayfair
In Wings and Tales, his new collection, the Delhi-based designer-artist takes the animal world of the Ramayana into furniture, brocades and tableware. In this interview, he talks about taking the collection to London, his penchant for baithak, and why he designs for his own curiosity
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AHEAD India’s growth story: Building the infrastructure and workforce behind Enterprise AI
As AHEAD expands across Gurugram, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, India MD Sumed Marwaha, Foundry EVP Chris Tucker and Consulting & Services EVP Keith Odom speak about moving AI beyond demos, from ServiceNow and high-performance computing to liquid cooling, and why the real test is what improves for customers and employees
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Devki Pande on The Imitation Englishman: ‘Once you leave home, it ceases to be your home’
The writer-producer on her debut novel — ‘a historical fiction novel inspired by the heroes’ journey of a fantasy novel’ — writing from a gap in her own family history, the uneasy politics of empire and revolution, language and belonging, and finding her voice as a novelist
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‘The jewellery should have a life of its own’: KEYA by Adbhut founder Keya Agarwal Badhalia
The Jaipur-based designer, researcher and author on creating jewellery that feels closer to collectible objects, using natural gemstones as part of the creative process, and giving Indian craftsmanship a contemporary form
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Jashn-e-Qawwali, Wishes and Blessings’s fundraising concert: A mehfil for a home for the elderly
At the fifth edition of Jashn-e-Qawwali, Wishes and Blessings’s fundraising concert, Kabul Bukhari’s voice carried a packed Bharat Mandapam through beloved qawwalis and film songs, but the evening’s real purpose was helping the Delhi-based NGO build a permanent home for the elderly residents of Mann Ka Tilak
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Shivani Sibal on Moms: ‘We must not just live a good life, but actively appear to be doing so’
In her sophomore novel, ‘Moms’, the author of ‘Equations’ returns with a sharper, more intimate look at women, friendship, social power and the distance between a perfect life and a lived one
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Mayukh Hazarika on Cherrapunji Gin, Red Dot win and building a spirits brand from Meghalaya
The Cherrapunji Eastern Craft Gin founder and CEO talks about the Red Dot-winning bottle, Meghalaya’s rainwater and botanicals, India’s craft gin boom, exports, regulation, technology and what it takes to build a premium alcobev brand from the Northeast
Read more >>Lines of their own: Nasreen Mohamedi and Bice Lazzari meet in KNMA’s new show, In-Rhythm
They lived in different countries, belonged to different generations and, as far as the curators know, never met or encountered each other’s work. Yet In-Rhythm, curated by Andrea Anastasio and Roobina Karode, finds an unexpected kinship between Bice Lazzari and Nasreen Mohamedi: in their devotion to line, rhythm, music, material and silence, and in the sheer independence with which each arrived at abstraction
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‘There are a million Marilyns out there’: Andrew Wilson on Marilyn Monroe beyond the myths
In I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe, A Life in 100 Takes, the British biographer draws on unpublished letters and recordings to revisit Monroe’s acting, ambition, relationships and death in the year of her birth centenary
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Avni Doshi on The First House: ‘My focus is to allow the characters to have psychic autonomy’
In her second novel, Avni Doshi looks at a marriage coming apart and the stories people build around love, family and themselves. She talks about memory and self-deception, motherhood and creative life, the unsettling intimacy of marriage, and whether we can ever truly escape the patterns of our past
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