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Bangalore Rock Band to Celebrate 20th Anniversary by Training 1,500...
The members of Bangalore-based rock band Thermal and a Quarter talked to The Better India about their 20th anniversary and raising funds to give musical training to underprivileged kids. If you’ve...
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What Happens When A Young Musician Gives Voice To Poets Like Nirala, Pash And...
Harpreet is an independent musician who is bringing back the voices of India’s forgotten classical Hindi and regional language poets through his music. Thanks to Jagjit Singh and his soulful voice, we...
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The Man Who is Reviving an Ancient Urdu Storytelling Form Using Sufism,...
Ankit Chadha, a writer and storyteller talks to The Better India about reviving an ancient Urdu storytelling form called Dastangoi. Dastangoi is an ancient form of storytelling in Urdu that would...
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Setting the Stage: 12 Little Known Traditional Folk Theatre Forms of India
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." - Oscar Wilde A fusion of...
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The Sound of Junk – Dharavi’s Rag Picking Children Are Making Music out of...
Plastic drums, paint cans, buckets, glass bottles and throw away junk – what do you get when you bring all this together? “Music!” say the rag picking children of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum. Every day,...
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How a Supdt. Of Police Is Using a Travelling Music Fest to Spread Communal...
This November, about 200 musicians from around the country will get together to spread love, music and communal harmony in Bikaner. And the Superintendent of Police will be there to support them. This...
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Rise of the Superheroes: The Fascinating History of Comic Books In India
A country with a long history of vivid storytellers and soulful illustrators, India is a nation that has always been keenly interested in visual storytelling. Many Indians have grown up reading...
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Why Every Single Kid in This Tiny Village in Punjab Knows Classical Music
In the quiet village of Bhaini Sahib in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, it is not uncommon to hear the tunes of classical music emanating from every home. This unique village has an astonishing...
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MY STORY: How Learning Madhubani Painting in 10 Days Was a Life-Changing...
As Sumeru is the best among mountains, Garuda among the birds, king amongst men, so is the art of painting among arts. - Chitrasutram (43-38, 39) When multiple thoughts throng the mind regarding the...
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In this Award-Winning Comic Book Series, Rape and Acid Attack Survivors are...
The image of Goddess Durga astride a tiger can often be found in homes, offices, shops and temples across India because she is synonymous with feminine power. But this image is being used, perhaps for...
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TBI Blogs: How the 800-Year-Old Dance Form of Chau Is Being Kept Alive in...
Chau is a tribal dance in Bengal that has achieved the status of a classical dance, thanks to foresight of its passionate artistes. It is that time of the year when winter has not yet started its...
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TBI Blogs: #DelhiHeroes: Exploring Kathputli Colony in Delhi Where 3500...
From magicians to snake charmers, from sculptors to artists, the Katputhli Colony in New Delhi is home to countless artists and art forms. Did you know, that the world's largest community of street...
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Love Photography but Don’t Know How to Earn from It? Let 3 Young...
Three college graduates are helping hundreds across the country live their dreams of becoming photographers. Armed with their cameras, passion, and hard work, they are telling budding photographers why...
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Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist from Bhopal Was Picked to Paint...
Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is more popular than some of Van...
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German Video-Mapping Artist Turned Pune’s Shaniwarwada into His Canvas This...
When the stone walls of Pune’s historic monument Shaniwarwada transformed into a gigantic canvas for the colourful artistic expression of the Berlin-based video-mapping artist Philipp Geist, Puneites...
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#TravelTales: Exploring Naya, Bengal’s Village of Singing Painters
An intricate tapestry of music and visual art is what makes Naya more than just a village in West Bengal's Paschim Midnapore district. A quaint little village, Naya is home to around 250 patuas or...
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American-Indian Duo Bring Vintage Studio Photography to Life through Hand...
Photographer Waswo X Waswo and artist Rajesh Soni talk to The Better India about A Studio in Rajasthan – a hand coloured series of black and white photographs that pay homage to traditional Indian...
View ArticleSix Photojournalists Who Will Open Your Eyes to Unseen Parts of India Through...
Instagram is one of the largest photo sharing platforms on the internet. It has more than five million users logging in everyday to share anything and everything from pictures of their first meal of...
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#Inktober2016: Here’s a Look at 14 Awesome Illustrations by Indian Artists
For artists across the world, hashtag #inktober means creativity, exploration, expression, as well as experimentation. The Inktober initiative, started by American illustrator Jake Parker in 2009, has...
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Welcome to Dharavi Art Room – A Safe, Colourful Space Where Children Come to...
A colourful room in a slum, where women and children come to work together, forget all their problems, and create art – that’s Dharavi Art Room for you. Set up by an art graduate way back in 2005, it...
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