Yatra Archives
How Tulika Books is creating impact in children’s lives through picture books
Nandini Varma
Aug 20, 2019
A children’s book about a boy who feels like a girl. And about a child brought up by grandfathers. These are some of the stories published by Tulika Books, who have been making children’s picture books since 23 years. Little…
Of youthful passion and star-crossed lovers on Shakespeare’s birthday
Dr. S. D. Desai
Apr 22, 2020
While the Globe is streaming free its second dramatic production Romeo and Juliet, today is 23rd April, the day William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is believed to have been born and died. One would seldom find a more spontaneous and intense expression…
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello—Artists or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters?
Harshil Shah
Nov 4, 2019
Did you ever wonder where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ characters got their names from? Well, your search is complete. Here is a brief introduction of the artists from whom the creators of TMNT took inspiration. Teenage mutant ninja turtles,…
The call of the mountains: orthopaedic Dr Yatin Desai’s advice on trekking
Himanshu Nainani
May 23, 2019
In this piece 64 year old Dr Yatin Desai, shares with CY his inspiring story of how to scale towering mountains with utmost ease and how this life adventure activity can shape human character and health. Chances are high that…
AAW #138
Dec 14 - Dec 20 2017
Ahmedabad Art Weekly is a curated calendar that every week brings you Ahmedabad’s most enchanting and engaging events. This week we have featured life-sized as well as enriching art exhibitions, extremely funny stand up comedy shows, a fresh photography exhibition, thought-provoking performing arts happenings, jovial musical gatherings, and everything that a citizen should consume while leaving the mainstream popular culture behind for a while. Since we have limited space in our AAW, we are not able to feature every event on our list. But all the events sent and featured are having an exclusive visibility on our website, which will also be stored permanently in our archives section.
Hindustani filmmaker and special effects pioneer Babubhai Mistry is the inspiration for our 138th AAW. He has given fantastic films based on Hindu Mythology like Sampoorna Ramayana and Mahabharat. Born in Surat, the filmmaker was a regular director at Wadia Movietone and later learnt the art of visual effects from Vijay Bhatt. He was dotingly called Kala Dhaga for his trick cinematic techniques and earned various accolades including the Kodak Trophy for Technical Excellence at MAMI.
Illustration : Nilesh Ramani