Miniature paintings are drawn on a very small scale. If enlarged, they would amaze one with their exactitude. One would fondly recall to mind miniatures on the theme of Radha-Krishna, those of Ragmala series and Nathdwara paintings. Handmade colours, particularly the basic ones – red, yellow and blue – develop strong contrasts as also delicate…

Having released in the backdrop of some suspicion from both right and left wings, partly  attributable perhaps to the recent track record of utterances of its makers the Balaji Motion Pictures and its key stake holders, the film The Sabarmati Report has harbored no twists. Rather creditably, it serves a straight narrative of depicting the…

Maharaj Krishna Santoshi, displaced from Kashmir in the nineties and thereafter a resident of Jammu, like his contemporary pundit brothers and endowed with the quality of intellectual thinking, has not forgotten the tragic destiny of his and his community’s forced migration; and how could he? If the people who left their homes and came to…

Ahmedabad is hosting two shows of an adaptation from the much-looked upto repertoire of candid short stories of the well known writer late Sadat Hasan Manto who lived a short biological life of 43 years but continues to live in literature and theatre 68 years after his death in 1955. Directed by Narendra Sachar and…