Wiping out our languages

Though India’s wide English speaking population is one of the advantages the country has, is the government’s official language killing its other 22 officially recognised and hundreds of other regional languages? Here is what people think.

Indian truck art: Pimped up rides

Passing through narrow city lanes to the dusty highways, delivering goods in various parts of the country, trucks in India also carry with them an Indian folk art - the truck art or Kitsch.

A peek into the business of comic culture in India

Amidst other ways to reach out, comic books/ e-books and comic strips are an attractive option for advertisers. Despite the fairly low circulation and readership of comic books in India, more advertisers are hopping on to the bandwagon. However, for the Indian comic publishers an...

Into the psyche of Psychedelic Art

This ‘trippy’ art form moves beyond the realm of drug-induced highs and into the manifestation of the inner psyche on paper.

Entretien avec Katia Légeret-Manochhaya

Professeur en études théâtrales et esthétique des arts du spectacle vivant, Katia Légeret-Manochhaya est également danseuse professionnelle de bharatanatyam et écrit sur les danses classiques indiennes. Elle nous livre sa vision de la « danse-théâtre », et des liens qu...

Le patrimoine Art déco de Bombay

The history behind International Women’s Day

There is more to International Women’s Day than fancy discounts and eating out. The rich struggle and movements for women’s rights have shaped the history of women’s day as we know it today.

The Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu

Kalaripayattu is a martial art that also practices traditional Indian methods of healing, leaving its impressions on both war and wound. In a more creative way it has also inspired some traditional performing art forms of Kerala, and even travelled east to birth the Kung Fu.

Peeping into the history of India’s architecture...

From Harappan sites to Buddhist relics, and colonial cantonments to martyr memorials, India is a treasure trove of cultural attractions. Thus, offering enriching peep into the country’s past as well as its present, Sahapedia & YES Culture lead pan-India heritage walks to discov...

How Shiva inspired the French sculptor Rodin

My book essentially describes the work of François Auguste René Rodin, a renowned French sculptor, who was so inspired by some photographs of the 11th-century bronze Shiva Nataraja in the Madras Museum