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Bhujanga Rao Madaavi in his village working on Dokra items

A vanishing ancient craft form

The KARA festival, organised at Saptaparni in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad till 8th November, displays an ancient but dying...

5 Nov 2020 12:15 PM IST

Karl Lutchmayer

Classical renditions

Mostly Mozart, a western classical music concert held in Hyderabad on Saturday, had a city-based performer, Hema...

28 Jan 2020 1:05 AM IST

Manjari Chaturvedi during her performance

Names like nachnewali, tawaif... unfair to the artist

Most of these singers were trained in classical music by well-known doyens of Hindustani classical music.

22 Jan 2020 6:33 AM IST

Chindu Yakshaganam, a traditional dance ballet, has performers and patronage across villages of Telangana.

Capturing Telangana's folklore in photographs

Saptaparini will exhibit Akula Shiv Kumar's monochrome and colour photographs inspired by the Telangana folklore Chindu...

11 Jan 2020 4:10 AM IST

Dr Subramaniam with granddaughter Mahati Subramaniam.

A musical night

The evening concluded with a grand finale of compositions played by Subramaniam and the Symphony Orchestra, receiving a...

9 Jan 2020 12:39 AM IST

Sid Sriram, the popular songwriter, composer and playback singer for Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam movies is still a hardcore Carnatic musician by heart.

A versatile musician

Multi-talented singer and song-writer Sid Sriram is well-versed in both Carnatic classical music as well as modern...

5 Nov 2019 12:02 AM IST

Photo by Melissa Golden

Through the female gaze

The gender makeup of the field has been changing ever since more women photographers have been entering the fray.

12 Sept 2018 12:32 AM IST

Wisdom, Afghanistan, 1983

Hope amid darkness of war

Reza has a piece of advice for the younger generation: One needs to be a multi-tasking visual storyteller.

8 Oct 2017 12:23 AM IST

Pradhan of Phulwaria at Varanasi

Beyond the image

Santosh took up photography as a hobby before his interest took him to San Francisco to pursue his Masters in Fine Arts...

13 Aug 2017 12:28 AM IST

Ustad Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi with his team.

Upholding a legacy

Ateeq feels very sad about the way qawwali is picturised in Bollywood.

19 April 2017 12:28 AM IST