Posts Tagged With: Mumbai
Backlog: Cardinal Meridians
I saw this show a few days after it opened, which is literally months ago (or at least a month ago). Now the closing date is nearing — May 31st, in case you were wondering — and I figured it was about time I wrote something, anything about Cardinal Meridian: New Geometries of the Infinite. [...]
Anna-tics II
Anna Hazare called off his fast and his “Jail Bharo Andolan” (an act of protest that calls for mass voluntary arrest). Instead of three days, Anna fasted for barely a day and a half. His medical team announced that he could suffer kidney failure if he continued. His strategy team probably pointed out to him [...]
Anna-tics
To say 2011 has been a crap year would be putting it mildly. I don’t mean for myself but for Mumbai at large. We bemoaned the city’s apathetic response to terrorist attacks. We were aghast when two boys were killed because they tried to stand up to a group of thugs who were harassing girls. [...]
Dam(n) Right
Eavesdropping in a Bandra Coffee Shop, Or, Why I’ve Less Drunk and More Choked on the Cup of Coffee I Got this Evening. “What the hell? Have you heard of this film? Dam 999. Random Tamil or Mallu film. Came out of bloody nowhere and now it’s gone and got shortlisted for best song and [...]
Deborah Baker in Mumbai
I’ve lost a notebook (again). It was a Moleskine (weep). This has goaded me into opening up a notebook that I haven’t lost (yet) and transferring its scribbles to the blog. It turns out I’ve done a lot of scribbling in there, so there’s something of a backlog to get through. These notes are from [...]
“I’m an introvert. Now please shush.”
Despite the best of intentions to stride into Colaba regularly and see every show in every gallery, I’m about as aware of what’s happening in the Mumbai art scene as I am of the process of making shukto. For those who are not well-versed with Bengali food, shukto is widely-regarded as one of the jewels [...]
Flash mob at CST
It’s not news since it’s been massively re-tweeted since it happened on November 27th, and it wasn’t technically a flash mob since CST was informed that a mob was going to show up and start dancing. Plus, there were rehearsals too, I’m told. But what the heck? This is one of the most fun things [...]
Quick Look: Make Me A Black Hole and I Will Believe You
I meant to write a little note about Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq’s “Make Me A Black Hole and I Will Believe You”, but since I have a flight to catch in precise 12 hours, I’m not going to get round to it clearly. So it’ll have to be some very rushed notes and a few pictures [...]
Quick Notes: Bako Exists. Imagine
Atul Dodiya was the one who inaugurated Chemould Prescott Road when it left the little corridor of space in Jehangir Art Gallery. It was a colourful show that was also a salute from Dodiya to Bhupen Khakhar. I remember walking into the gallery and seeing Dodiya gleeful and in the middle of installing the show, [...]
Padmini Chettur: Beautiful Thing 2
I’m rather fond of the Clark House Initiative, and not just because I know one of its members. Started by 4 young things who are artistically inclined in different ways, the hope of Clark House Initiative is to put up unconventional, uncommercial art shows. Their first project was Right to Dissent, for which Tushar Joag [...]
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