Enter Stage Right: A compelling, evanescent memoir of the Alkazi-Padamsee family, and their theatrical imprint A marriage eventually frayed at the edges but robust in its critical mass of shared cultural persuasions irrevocably linked the Alkazi and Padamsee families in the artistic sphere. Vikram Phukan February 06, 2021 09:54:38 IST Cover of Feisal Alkazi s upcoming book, Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi/Padamsee Family Memoir. Image via Speaking Tiger Publication.
The reams of Indian newsprint lavished on the cultural exploits of the Alkazi and Padamsee clans over the decades might easily fill several volumes, even if one were not to take into account the sustained cycles of recapitulation that feed arts coverage in the country. A marriage eventually frayed at the edges but robust in its critical mass of shared cultural persuasions irrevocably linked the tw
How Netflix s The Dig explores the subtlety of archeological study, of probing memory and the past The Dig reminds us that the role of archaeology is not in treasure-seeking, but in reflecting on our complex relationship to the past, and how and why we value it. The Conversation February 06, 2021 13:25:13 IST Netflix s The Dig recounts the tale of the excavation of a ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king.
By Roberta Gilchrist
Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king was uncovered. For a nation on the brink of war and facing its own dark age, the Sutton Hoo ship burial was a source of pride and inspiration, equivalent to the tomb of Tutankhamun.
In the Mood for Love: The romantic imposters of Wong-kar Wai’s transcendental narrative The general consensus is that In the Mood for Love is one of the greatest love stories ever made. This is because, in many ways, In the Mood for Love is the greatest love story never made. Rahul Desai February 05, 2021 09:55:50 IST The reason Wong-kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love transcends the conventions of storytelling is because, for once, it’s the betrayed who hijack the moods of love.
The Viewfinder is a fortnightly column by writer and critic Rahul Desai, that looks at films through a personal lens.
Dancer Mandeep Raikhy s The Secular Project explores secularism as a cultural practice through bodily rituals On the road for the past three weeks, with a dusty car for company along with two cloth banners in English and Hindi asserting SECULAR INDIA/ धर्मनिरपेक्ष भारत , Raikhy states that his journey is a search for a secular ritual for the body, in a country fractured along communal lines. Ranjini Nair February 02, 2021 10:32:56 IST Secular India Project by Mandeep Raikhy. Instagram/thesecularproject
In Queen-size , Delhi-based dancer Mandeep Raikhy moved outside-in, challenging the viewer’s public preoccupation with what unfolds in the privacy of the bedroom. The outside world was brought into the soft, consensual intimacy of the bedroom, to witness how it gets pierced through by the political. It took the spectat
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from an American medical school. Undark February 02, 2021 10:35:58 IST Portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell by Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, 1963. Collection of SUNY Upstate Medical University. Image via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Blackwell s life has long figured prominently in the standard inspirational liturgy for little girls. In 1849, Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from an American medical school. She completed rigorous postgraduate training and led a busy professional life. She unlocked the doors of the male medical world and propped them wide open for the rest of us.
Needless to say, this hoary version of events contains some inaccuracies. For one thing, some doors barring women from male-dominated medical spheres are even now not yet open. For another, during much of recorded history uncredentialed w