カテゴリー: Culture
More than 250 authors urge India’s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to…
Interviewed about her plans for retirement, the former Aotearoa New Zealand prime minister says the word is not in her vocabularyHelen Clark, 69, is the second woman to hold the post of prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand and fifth-longest serving p…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian p…
Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan AskariNasreen Askari had no interest in fashion when she was growing up. “I was deeply ugly, slightly sporty and slightly nerdy. That summed me up,”…
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story The dialogue is a bit stilted sometimes, and, once all the wrapping is off, the big reveal is slightly silly, but this rare instance of…
City needed a protest song to unite it, says the anonymous writer behind the tune sweeping the barricadesThe orchestra wear hard hats and gas masks, the choir emerges from a swirl of tear gas-like smoke, and as the music swells, cutaway shots show crow…
20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film academy awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars – are to be held in India for the first time in their history this week.Mumbai will host the 20th…
Kolkata, one of Asia’s great melting pots, is the last place on Earth where rickshaw wallahs still haul people and goods through narrow lanes. With just hundreds left, Palani Mohan’s images capture them as they disappear. Almost all of the pullers orig…
The Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing’s images record China’s rise from self-imposed ruin to today’s superpower. His new book presents scenes of hope, hardship and change under Communist party rule. A Life in a Sea of Red is publis…
The annual Infra Jatra festival, named after the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu valley Continue reading…
Patriotic myths are exploded in a vivid pageturner, which considers the Company as a forerunner of modern multinationals, ‘too big to fail’About a century ago, a series of giant murals was unveiled in the Palace of Westminster depicting the “Building o…
George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were loyal customers. More than 70 years since it opened, this family business is still crafting instruments that last a lifetimeIn a dusty, crowded corner of south Kolkata, India, is a quaint 73-year-old musical instru…
A film charting Pat Farmer’s 4,600km dash across India piles on the platitudes, reducing an amazing odyssey to nippy travelogueThe Indian ascetic tradition can add another name to its ranks: former Australian parliamentary secretary and ultra-marathon …
Cantopop star says city has become a police state as young people fight for their lives “We are officially in a police state,” the Hong Kong Cantopop star and activist Denise Ho told a sold-out audience in Sydney on Sunday night.Speaking at the Sydney …