CATEGORIES

A Sensuous Geometry
The Indian Quarterly

A Sensuous Geometry

A chance encounter leads a poet to an epiphany. Arundhathi Subramaniam on how she rediscovered Bharatanatyam, a lost childhood love

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10 mins  |
October - December 2017
Automatic Bodies
The Indian Quarterly

Automatic Bodies

Primped, hairless and buff, the Hindi film hero has little in common with his predecessor. It’s a product, argues Paromita Vohra, of a new politics of aspiration.

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October - December 2016
Moving Mountains
The Indian Quarterly

Moving Mountains

There’s a proliferation of biennales and triennales in South Asia. Concluded this summer, the Kathmandu Triennale.

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3 mins  |
July - September 2017
Gods Are Human Too
The Indian Quarterly

Gods Are Human Too

Classical art, with its formality, made the past remote. Folk art gave it back some life.

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5 mins  |
July - September 2017
The Man Without A Nation
The Indian Quarterly

The Man Without A Nation

The Man Without A Nation

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10+ mins  |
July - September 2017
Serving Their Purpose
The Indian Quarterly

Serving Their Purpose

How Indian filmmakers depict servants is a comment on their masters.

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10+ mins  |
July - September 2017
The Comedy Of Manners
The Indian Quarterly

The Comedy Of Manners

Is etiquette more than snobbery? Is the egalitarianism of the present, the informality, any more inclusive, or is it just a pose.

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10+ mins  |
July - September 2017
the fortune teller
the indian quarterly

the fortune teller

much before iphones and youtube, a gaudy machine on our railway platforms provided entertainment and information. it’s all but gone, but a fortuitous meeting makes pallavi aiyar’s childhood spring to life.

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8 mins  |
january - march 2017
Bengali Macho
The Indian Quarterly

Bengali Macho

A race of weaklings? Effeminate aesthetes more likely to be writing poetry than lifting weights? Sandip Roy delves into a surprising history of musclemen, barefoot footballers and Tagore the wrestler.

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10+ mins  |
October - December 2016
The Unfinished Book of Family
The Indian Quarterly

The Unfinished Book of Family

Every family is a novel in the making: a ready cast of characters, tales of heroism and farce, an easy organic structure. But though in the beginning there may have been the Word, the end will always be elusive.

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8 mins  |
January - March 2017

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