Tabla wizard ustad Zakir Hussain (9 March 1951–15 December 2024) left for his eternal journey at a time when he was supposed to be in Kolkata as a much awaited participant in the Swara Samrat Music Festival. The world of art lovers, film lovers, even tea lovers, is shell shocked by this sudden bolt from the blue.
In her latest outing, Superboys of Malegaon, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was last screened at Red Sea (where I watched it), Reema Kagti carts us to a small city in Maharashtra and throws us in the midst of a group of boisterous boys.
As the grand curtain call to Srijit Mukherji’s foray into the Feluda universe, Bhuswargo Bhoyonkawr stands not merely as an apposite swansong but as the crowning jewel of his adaptations.
The 16th Rasheswar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Dance Award and the 56th Annual Festival of Dance were held recently in Guwahati by Sangeet Sattra in honour of its founder principal, Adhyapak Rasheswar Saikia himself, and were a rich fare.
This year, GD Birla Centre for Education hosted its much-awaited ‘Winter Carnival 2.0’ to celebrate the immense contributions of retired teachers, as well as students, parents and alumni, all held within a day filled with fun and festivities on 7 December.
On a bright Sunday morning of 2 June, Kolkata vibed with the rhythms of western classical music under the auspices of the Southern School of Music (Garia) at the packed ICCR’s Satyajit Ray auditorium.
Arnold's latest, Bird, which competed at the recent Cannes Film Festival, swirls around a single father and his two children, who give him a real hard time.
In a candid conversation with The Statesman, Jasleen Royal shares her journey as an artist, her new release, Assi Sajna and what it’s like to be a woman singer-composer in Bollywood.
he centre was founded by Bhavana Reddy, the younger daughter and disciple of Kuchipudi legends Padma Bhushan's Raja Radha Reddy, and Kaushalya Reddy, who has adopted California as her home
We all think that hardly any woman takes to the streets on her own sweet will. She is pushed into it either by selfish folks who are greedy for easy money or by the grinding poverty that the woman herself may be facing.
