Bengal and Calcutta or Kolkata as it is now called is a place I have wanted to go to forever. The people I met who came from there were a large part of the reason. Unfailingly brilliant conversationalists, intellectuals, liberals all. Another reason was the many bengali films seen at various film festivals over the years. We are speaking of the land of...
His deep gravelly velvet voice wraps itself around sanskrit verses with a love and authority that belies its owners American origin, perhaps it is so because Grammy nominated Krishna Das is more Indian in his work and in his dedication to his Guru than most modern day Indians can fathom to be. "His voice is like gravity," Nichtern says. "You just fall into...
I am excited. It is not everyday that I get to write of an artist whose work is new, startling in its use of colour and tradition and makes me want to wish I had done it. To see Aarti Karwayun's work is to see an artist in the flow, having fun, it is to see someone discovering and unplugging a whole large...
The chat I had with young but very determined Shravan Murgai was surely an interesting one, as he took me through his journey that began with learning the ropes with his father's jewellery business, walking the small alleys of Zaveri Bazaar, dealing with diamonds, learning trust, travelling in local trains carrying diamonds worth lakhs and lakhs in his college rucksack, and then giving...
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