The tragedy of the Congress is that the more Bharat changes with time, the more it remains stuck in a time warp. So, as the Congress currently finds itself on the back foot on the issue of ‘wealth redistribution’, especially after Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it an election issue, the party could have done well to recall the …
In a world of angry Hanuman images, Sanjay Patel draws a different story. But she didn’t understand what I was doing.” Sanjay Patel used his art to escape from life at the motel, went to art school and joined the American animation studio Pixar and worked on the animation and storyboarding of films like Monsters, Inc., Ratatouille, Cars and Toy …
On a journey to meet people connected to heritage art and knowledge systems across India while writing my book The The Indic Quotient: Reclaiming Heritage through Cultural Enterprise, I find myself in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, one morning in September of 2018. Pointing to the loom at one corner of the large veranda, Shravnekar smiles, and says that weaving is the …
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