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‘Write Honestly’: S Hareesh on Turning His Story Into India’s Oscar Hope...
S. Hareesh is the assistant village officer at Neendoor, a hamlet tucked away in the hills of central Kerala. He’s also the mind behind India’s latest entry to the Oscars, Jallikattu. The film is based...
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Maharashtra Man has Turned Waste Coconuts into 400 Pieces of Spectacular Artwork
The authorities at the Port Blair International Airport in Andamans looked at Vijayanand Shembekar with suspicion. They pulled him aside to inquire about his bag, which was full of waste coconuts. It...
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Padma Shri Artist From Madhya Pradesh Once Worked As A Daily Wager, Earning Rs 6
Rising from the ashes and breaking barriers is her forte. Madhya Pradesh-based Bhuri Bai has experienced acute poverty first hand and has also worked as a child labourer just to be able to afford one...
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‘I Was Called ‘Trash’ All My Life, Now I Use It To Make Artwork’: NRI Sculptor
What would you do with a few bottle caps? Discard them, I presume. But 39-year-old Harminder Singh Boparai uses such discarded pieces to create stunning works of art. His latest work, titled Life,...
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In Pics: Freedom Fighters to Food, This 28-YO Has A Stunning Collection of...
A few years ago, a 25-year-old Shreya Katuri was strolling through a labyrinth of narrow alleys in Varanasi when she spotted a bright yellow matchbox at a paan shop. Excitedly, she handed over a Rs 10...
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In 1975, This Talking Doll Bagged a Doordarshan Show & Impressed Satyajit Ray!
The year is 1977. Prabir Kumar Das, a ventriloquist (vent) is on a high. He has just wrapped up a 30-minute set with his talking doll, Michael, providing his audience at the Doordarshan studio in...
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Delhi Man Once Flipped Burgers To Support Family; Now An International Tattoo...
When Lokesh, an award-winning professional tattoo artist, decided that he was going to learn the art of making tattoos by himself, there was no YouTube or Google to fall back on. This was the early...
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This Woman’s Heartfelt Videos Will Give You a New Love For Kashmiri Culture
Daneen (name changed), a Kashmiri woman in her seventies, would eagerly wait for her friend, Dida, who is half her age, every day. Daneen’s Alzheimer’s and deteriorating health may not have allowed her...
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25-YO Son Of Driver & Domestic Help Battles Poverty To Rise As Kuchipudi Dancer
Up until the age of 11, Sai Venkat Gangadhar from Hyderabad had never heard of a dance form called Kuchipudi. This made sense, seeing as how, growing up in the slums of Mastan Nagar Basti, close to...
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Musicians Across India Rely On This Kerala Family’s 200-YO Legacy Of Mridangams
Dr. Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan from Kerala’s Palakkad district holds five Guinness World Records for his marathon performances, in which he plays the Mridangam, a Carnatic instrument, for the longest...
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Tamil Artist Uses Kolam to Transform Couple’s Home, Paints 55 Panels in a Week
In southern India, it’s common to see women drawing intricate patterns or kolams every morning just outside their front door. The kolam is drawn at the threshold of one’s home using rice flour – which...
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At 58, Manipur Artist Makes 100-YO Doll Making Tradition His Own, Boosts His...
Konsam Ibomcha Singh of Imphal East, Manipur, was born to National Awardee parents. His father, Konsam Tona Singh, had won the award in the Dolls and Toys category and mother, Konsam Ongbi Gambhini...
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The Fate of a Rare Dying Art Rests on The Lips of This 20-YO Kerala Girl
I n 2008, after performing a rare art form of puppetry called ‘Nokkuvidya Pavakkali’ in Paris, artist and Padma Shri awardee Moozhikkal Pankajakshi found herself at a crossroads. She was the last...
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32000 Km And 500 towns: Mumbai Photographer’s Journey to Save Single-Screen...
For the last 17 years, Hemant Chaturvedi always began the new year with a travel ritual. A Mumbai-based photographer and cinematographer, he travels all the way to Prayagraj (earlier known as...
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As Artwork Worth Lakhs Lies Unsold, Odisha Artists Paint Homes With Ancient Art
Raghunath, a resident of Odisha’s Raghurajpur village, is a fourth generation artist engaged in Pattachitra, a cloth-based scroll painting. This art form dates back to the 12th century. In the last 22...
View ArticleWatch: Farmers Turn Fields Into Canvas, Wow the Internet With Viral Paddy Art
Did you know that a small village named Inakadate in Japan makes art out of paddy growing in large fields? The practice, which is called Tanbo art, was started in 1993 by farmers in the village who...
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Amid the Pandemic, Twitter Generates Several Lakhs in Revenue For Pattachitra...
Bipin Das, 43, has spent the last 26 years burning the midnight oil to keep a dying art alive. A skilled senior Pattachitra artist based out of a small village near Raghurajpur, Odisha, he dedicates...
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They Taunted Him For His ‘Naach’. 84 Years Later, India Awarded Him the Padma...
Ramchandra Manjhi may have won the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award and Sangeet Natak Akademi, but his biggest achievement is something else. A resident of Bihar’s Chapra district, he...
View ArticleWatch: Self-Taught Artist Makes Amazing ‘Art in Air’ Out of Stones, Goes Viral
Have you heard of the young artist who is creating art ‘in’ thin air? We say ‘in thin air’ here to give you a sense of his unique artform. KP Rohit, a young artist from Kerala, is mesmerising his...
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With One Email, Kalamkari Weaver Lives Dad’s Dream & Makes the 400-YO Craft...
India welcomed the internet in 1986 but it was only a decade later when the dot-com bubble penetrated our lives, as VSNL became an internet service provider in 1995. Towards the end of the ’90s, there...
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