Have a look at these recipes for sweets and savouries during the festivals of Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami and Narali Poornima. Chef Zarin Mirza recommends. The month of Shravana or Sawan is a celebrated month in the Hindu calendar because it…

Abhivyakti City Arts Project is giving a platform to budding artists to explore their creativity. The process of making the festival is as interesting as the performances. Read more about how the festival came to fruition here. You may spend…

Ahmedabad Art Weekly’s 200th weekly anniversary is proof that Amdavadis want to know more and more about creative happenings in the city. Know why the Weekly was started and find out how it will soon change the way we’ve experienced…

Will Rami Malek win for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury? Find out who is giving tough competition to Lady Gaga now. And whether Roma is still being billed as the year’s strongest contender for Best Picture. CY predicts who will win…

Dreaming of enjoying delicacies during the kite-flying festival? Did you know that different parts of India have their own unique regional specialities? Find out what the best of these are. January 14th is celebrated across various parts of India as…

Did you know these facts about the much-loved kite festival of India, Makar Sankranti a.k.a. Uttarayan? Makar Sankranti, the kite-flying and harvest festival that’s popularly called Uttarayan in Gujarat, is perhaps one time of the year when people bury their…

There’s a ‘brassroots revolution’ in the world of music and it’s called HONK! This gathering of activist street bands believes in “lending music to the politics of the moment” and is reclaiming the streets wherever it goes. You’ve never quite…

It’s a major race between ‘The Shape of Water’, ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’. We predict what’s in store at the Academy Awards this year. With the 90th Academy Awards on the horizon, Oscar fever began to soar…

A dekko into the highlights and currents seen at the Mumbai Film Festival. The Mumbai Film Festival has come to an end, leaving in its wake cinephiles besieged by chronic withdrawal symptoms. Considering the truly excellent selection of more than…

Know how the 7000 crore cracker industry in India came to be so significant and what the effect of the Delhi ban on the people at Sivakasi is. People celebrate Diwali across the globe in myriad forms. While some believe…

With the third International Yoga Day – on June 21st– being round the corner, Creative Yatra discusses how modern day Yogis have popularised Yoga over the years. Know how the science came into existence and how different Yogis preached their unique…

Delving into an overview of Cannes Film Festival 2017, we explore not just its glamorous aspect, but also the conceptual and economic influence it has had on the global film industry, and shed some insight on how the Festival transmogrified…

An International Film Festival to be presented in Charlotte, US will bring together filmmakers from around the world whose work depicts the theme of Asia. The festival will showcase 9 unique films belonging to 8 different languages. Charlotte Asian Film Festival…

A folk musician, a self-taught mandolin player, a Carnatic violinist and a freestyle drummer. Can you imagine them all together? Now imagine them singing Kabir. You cannot call these guys just a band. They are an experience to behold and…

At Asmita 2017, the show was stolen by the performing arts genre, with street plays and mime performances galore effectively striving to communicate social messages. I was mildly bewildered to witness a volunteer blocking my way, as he insisted, “You cannot…

It’s been scientifically proven that when humans are involved in a celebration it improves their health as well as social bonding. And with such an amazing response to our last article, our team decided to bring forth another list, this…

Confused about what the recent furor in Tamil Nadu is about? Here, we break it down for you. The first time I read about Jallilkattu, I thought of it as an Indian version of Spanish bullfighting, with matadors and red…

‘Kaaippoccheee‘ a word that conquers terraces of India on January 14th each year. The modern India is now much nonpartisan in terms of festivity, thus Uttarayan/Makarsankranti finds celebrators across diverse corners of the nation, but why do we celebrate it? The only…

My experience at GLF was a marvelous one. The very fact that such a well-organized event, at such a large scale, was being held at one of my favourite places in my hometown – the sophisticated yet welcoming Kanoria Arts…

As January approaches, the thought of Saptak Classical Music Festival hits the right note in our heads. The wait is steady, and with passing days, the resolve firmer. January evenings are booked even before the month arrives. And so, when…

Dharamshala International Film Festival 6 excellent Indie Movies You Have To Watch In our country India, the Indie-film scenario is a mushrooming occurrence in its own right, and yearly festivals have kept on hosting some excellent movies allowing them alternate…

Imagine a gathering under a single dome full of literary heads discussing, socializing, interacting, learning and meeting everyone present. Spending afternoons talking books, evenings hearing writers exclaiming their experiences, other days listening to panelists discussing the world over relevant literature topics. This is…

The New Medium of Cinema: Gender and Empathy As Seen at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival The seven-day visual feast at the Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival came to a resounding close on 27th October. Over the days, a…

Indian films approach some hard topics, ranging from criminogenesis to human trafficking, through documentary-style films.   This year’s Mumbai Film Festival has brought together over 175 films from 54 countries for a seven-day gala that has been calling out to…

He one of the first known Artist-Curators in the country, GQ Man of the year, the co-founder of the Kochi Muziris Biennale and also the co-curator of the first edition – that is Bose Krishnamachari for you – flamboyant, warm and an…

What stands out in a long list of Biennales and Art dos is the London Design Biennale 2016 that opens this week; now that’s just one of the feathers in wears on its hat. Architects and designers from 37 countries…

The first edition of the London Design Biennale will take place at Somerset House this September. The first of its kind event brings together 37 countries showcasing their best in innovative design under the theme of “Utopia by Design.” Somerset…

The Parsis said just as this sugar blends perfectly well in this cup of warm milk, so will we in the culture of your land. And well they did! Gujarat and Parsis have forged a friendship formed on love and respect, giving…

  It is thrilling to think, that soon Ahmedabad is going to host the Ahmedabad Literature Festival (ALF) on 12th & 13th November, 2016, with Ahmedabad Management Association as the venue. Writers, poets, readers and literary enthusiasts are expected to…

Yoga can bring transformation! The way we conduct our deeds, thoughts that we develop in mind, habits we infuse, and everything that that defines our existence can be transformed for betterment and wellbeing through Yoga.  Yoga, a 5000 year old…

There are theories, but no one knows when exactly this celebration started. Since thousands of decades every 4 years an extravaganza occurs, where men, women and children from varied culture and ethnicity come together to celebrate human history’s biggest social…

Once a worldly man, met a saint Both glanced at each other and laughed, And asked the same question, What have you done to yourself ? -Bharat Thakur When celebration goes above cast, creed, language and gender is actually where…

1 – Hosting the royal procession (Peshwai) of Naga Sadhu’s first dip in Kshipra River at Ramghat, The Greenwich of India. Kumbh is one of the largest congregation of humans on the planet. It takes place at an interval of…

Khwahish. Numaish. Farmaish. Wah. What a volley of beautiful velvety words cascading through someone’s rendering; it almost sounds like poetry. All of them carrying subtle nuances in their meaning, blend into a potpourri of a similar fragrance. Numaish is one…