Team L&M Ages and ages of running after pleasure and instant gratification have dulled our very souls. We have traded simplicity for complexity, clean air for smog and machines for spirit. We have corrupted the soil we tread, the air we breathe and the water we drink. The consequences are here now, cutting holes into […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Half-an-hour with him and the famous Hindi movie song from Manoj Kumar-starrer Shor, jeevan chalne ka naam, chalte raho subah aur shaam comes to your mind. Rajkavi Inderjit Singh Tulsi may have penned the lyrics for a man wanting to collect money to get his ailing son treated by cycling day-and-night on the […]Read More
It was around a decade back that Sufi Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi challenged herself to change the perception about tawaifs (courtesans). She felt these women great singers, dancers and poets. To bring alive dance and stories of women who were stigmatised by society, the renowned dancer brings the show, Uff Malka Jaan & the Velvet […]Read More
Artist Swati Pasari picks up five of her paintings and how each is spiritually inclined and has colour healing properties The Joyous Celebration Only when we find our true spirit is when we attain happiness and joy. Our awareness of the cosmic connection with God and His soulful music makes life a celebration and […]Read More
Team L&M Seventy years after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, an exhibition of photographs of Swiss photographer Walter Bosshard (1892–1975) is likely to shed new light on the Independence movement, the salt march to Dandi in 1930 and the personality of its leader. This will be the first time that these photographs will […]Read More
For some dancers, work never stops. It doesn’t matter whether they are physically present at a rehearsal hall or not, these dancers clock in early to write that choreography, make arrangements for clothes, skip lunch to finish a creative planning conversation on the phone and again stay back till late, waiting for approvals and whatever […]Read More
Team L&M Veteran artist Sanjay Bhattacharya has been imbibing and storing many striking images that make up our country, having travelled extensively from east to west and north to south. Although India has changed over the last so many years but the essential elements remain the same, especially in the places of pilgrimage. Bhattacharya’s new journey, […]Read More
The changing ways of dance in cinema Bollywood is over a 100 years old and produces the highest number of films in a year in the world: six-seven movies release every week which means 300-350 movies a year. So can you well imagine if we release so many films in a year, how many of […]Read More
American choreographer and social activist honoured by the German Federal government While dancing in India, be it Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Lavni or any classical or folk dance form, dancers wear ghungroos (small metallic bells when tied together make music). These ghungroos, worshipped and taken great care of by the dancers, are placed at the feet […]Read More
Team L&M 47 artists 1 symposium 3 filmmakers 3 masterclasses 6 children’s workshops 1 book launch All this and more can be experienced at the first international ceramic event, The Indian Ceramics Triennale titled Breaking Ground. Launched on August 31 at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, the Triennale will be on display until November 18. Breaking Ground promises to be an […]Read More