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Gendering Art

The all-women Pentholppavakkooth troupe is an attempt at challenging patriarchy not only outside but also within the art form of shadow puppetry in Kerala.

What Is the Caste of Music?

Irula tribeswoman Nanjiyamma winning a National Film Award has once again laid bare our elitist, casteist conceptions of art.

The Urban Non-narrative and an Independent Language of Cinema

The progress of cinema as an art form can be seen through the emergence of an independent language of depicting the urban.

Managing India’s Pasts

The lack of clarity and transparency in the impending restructuring of organisations like the Films Division of India and the National Film Archive of India, under the umbrella of the National Film Development Corporation of India, disenfranchises the real stakeholders of India’s fi lm heritage—the Indian public.

Namdeo Dhasal’s New Language- A reflection of the conscience of the oppressed

Marathi poet Namdeo Dhasal challenged Brahminical literature and sought to reconstruct a caste-less society through his works.

Restoring Heritage

The artisan community in Chandannagar faces a life of precarity and institutional apathy.

 

Concrete Labour and Corporeal Aesthetic

The art of lavani as an aesthetic labour involves a contradictory sense of the self. At one level, self-realisation of an artists assigns them a complete autonomy on aesthetic production, while at another level, it also generates a sense of self-exploitation which is social and structural. 

 

The Craft and Lifeworld of Artist and Art in Society

Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity from Artisans in Telangana: Conversations Around Craft by Chandan Bose, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; pp 311, ¤93.59.

Art for Whose Sake?

Socially engaged art is inclusive, community-driven, and devoid of the traditional binaries associated with art.

The Feigned Lives of Facebook

Art and philosophy can show the way for a social media that embraces life in its totality, allowing for the projection of our true selves on social media.

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