Culture
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Patricia Herbert obituary
From 1975 until 1998, my mother-in-law, Patricia Herbert, who has died aged 81, was the south-east Asia curato…
- Asia Pacific, China, Communism, Culture, Games, Hong Kong, Mobile games, Taiwan, Tibet, Uyghurs, World news
Hong Kong police tell people not to download ‘secessionist’ mobile game
Players face possible arrest for downloading Taiwan-developed Reversed Front: Bonfire, which lets them ‘overth…
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‘Once-in-a-generation artist’ Arijit Singh to be first Indian musician to headline UK stadium
Bengali singer who has more Spotify followers than Taylor Swift to bring ‘sheer power’ to same London stage as…
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Jai Verma obituary
My friend Jai Verma, who has died aged 75, was a poet, a writer and cross-cultural organiser who served as a b…
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China’s pro-wrestlers search for a star to bring the sport out of the shadows
As a child, Wang Tao was inspired by the American film The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. Now 25, he is Chi…
- Art, Art and design, British Museum, Buddhism, Culture, Exhibitions, Hinduism, India, Museums, Religion, South and Central Asia
Ancient India review – snakes, shrines and sexual desire power a passionate show
British Museum, LondonA lovable elephant deity and a floating serpent goddess are just two of the highlights i…
- Art, Art and design, British Museum, Buddhism, Culture, Exhibitions, Hinduism, India, Religion, South and Central Asia
Your chance to stare down a god: inside the British Museum’s mesmerising look at Indian religions
A show full of deities, snakes and shrines puts three ancient faiths in the spotlight. Our writer seeks out it…
- Australia news, Australian theatre, Culture, Environment, Environmental activism, Farming, India, Rising festival, South and Central Asia, Stage, Sydney, Theatre, Water
The Wrong Gods review – absorbing drama tackles dark chapter in India’s history
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney; then heading to MelbourneCounting and Cracking creator S Shakthidharan uses family…
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Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community
Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has…
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Auction of ancient Indian gems ‘imbued with presence of Buddha’ condemned
Sotheby’s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha’s remains, denounced as perpetuating colon…
- Architecture, Art and design, Culture, Europe, Russia, South and Central Asia, Uzbekistan, World news
Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C sun gun: the mesmerising architecture of Tashkent
From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world’s w…
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The Glassworker: Studio Ghibli’s legacy lives in Pakistan’s first hand-drawn feature
Usman Riaz’s full-length debut is a decade-in-the-making story about life’s beauty and fragilityThe Glassworke…
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Japan’s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?
Fifty-five years since Osaka last hosted, rocks from Mars, domestic androids and artificial hearts are part of…
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‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms
As wealth in India has grown, so has the number of arts patrons championing both India’s 20th century modern m…
- Art and design, Culture, Domestic violence, Global development, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’
One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditiona…