The celebration of art has been extended from traditionally elite environs to North Chennai. All those there will learn from the rich heritage of the city's most underdeveloped part.
...Full Story[Book extract] With art becoming an agent for social organisation, the artist is nothing but a pawn.
...Full StoryCaste transcends every faith and is ingrained in our social fabric and hence needs to be dethroned from within and beyond faith.
...Full Story'Democracy demands that society's wealth, physical and cultural, be shared with openness, respect and love.'
...Full StoryDon't we have the right to ask, if not demand this?
...Full StoryBehind all the celebration and ‘iconisation’ there is a war, one of control, power and superiority.
...Full StoryThe overall atmosphere is so commodified that listening has more or less vanished.
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