Indian classical dances are mostly associated with the tales of gods and goddesses. It is rarely that we see an artiste who brings out social issues and talks about environment through his or her performance and show. Renowned Kathak exponent Neha Banerjee is one of the rare gems in the world of dance who is […]Read More
We have often seen people who follow Hindu religion taking up various forms of Indian classical dance forms. Later, after years of training and learning, they perform various stories from the Indian mythology. It is rather unusual to find a person from a Christian background drawn to a dance form that is mostly practiced and […]Read More
Team L&M Delhi-based interior designer and stylist Sanjyt Syngh has unveiled a series of thought-provoking sculptures titled My Thinking Faces that are unique and timeless. Made in fibre and stainless steel, these striking sculptures are ultramarine blue, pure green and black colours. My Thinking Faces includes a series of five individual sculptures that are reminiscent […]Read More
Team L&M In what can be termed as a momentous day in the history of Indian photography, the image of the original photograph and digitally-restored photograph of the earliest surviving painting in a Hindu temple: Queen and Attendants, Earliest-Surviving Hindu Painting, Cave 3, Badami, 6th century CE, photographed in 2001 and digitally restored by art […]Read More
Team L&M Adhering to the new normal in these difficult times has been excruciating for everyone. We often find ourselves trying to do things that make us happy. Music has helped us get past such times and lifted our spirits. With the hope of uplifting people’s moods, Saregama and music band, Sanam, have come together […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha I promise the next time I’m in Delhi, bhaiya, after the coronavirus leaves us for good, I’ll surely drop home for lunch. Also, I’ve done a painting for you which I need to hand over. Bye! Till we meet… A next that was never to happen. Never did I, in my wildest dreams, had expected […]Read More
Pop singer-songwriter-model LEKKA recently released her Hindi-Punjabi single, Kaabil-E-Tareef, featuring Punjabi superstar Gurnazar Chattha who has written and composed it too. Born to an HR consultant mother and businessman father in New Delhi, Lekka has an elder brother. Saurabh Tankha talks to the independent stage artiste-singer who is an engineer by qualification and musician by […]Read More
Hariharan, Bickram Ghosh join hands for the love of music Saurabh Tankha When two of the country’s greatest musical icons, one a renowned playback, bhajan and ghazal singer and the other a tabla maestro, decide to collaborate, you expect magic to reach your ears. So it has with the super-genius duo of Hariharan and Bickram […]Read More
It can be upsetting. It can be heart-wrenching. But the fact is that this storytelling song about a girl who has seen violence on her mother since childhood is truly inspirational. Later when she gets married, she too falls in the same situation and becomes a survivor of violence and oppression. But she gathers herself […]Read More
She stormed the Indian music scene as a 15-year-old with her hit single, Hotline, the first Indian single ever to be released. Almost three-and-a-half decades later, artist-chef-healer ANAIDA PARVANEH talks to SAURABH TANKHA about her attracting a disease which almost killed her, launching a spiritual colouring book called Tattva that reduces stress and raises frequency, […]Read More