Culture
Art in Sharjah: a new vista for Muslim women
Artists in the UAE are calling people to visit a new online exhibition to expose themselves to the plight and success of Muslim women around the world, and challenge common stereotypes. Artist and University of Sharjah College of Fine Arts and Design lecturer Dr Fatima Zahra Hassan said Emirati women, in particular, should view a […]
To Reach You Move; To Transform Travel
Film Review: The Way (2010), Directed by Emilio Estevez, 121 minutes, English. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters in comparison with what it […]
Digital Reincarnation for Dunhuang’s Buddhist Art
Inching their cameras along a rail inside the chamber, specialists use powerful flashes to light up paintings of female Buddhist spirits drawn more than 1,400 years ago. One click after another illuminates colourful scenes of hunters, Buddhas, flying deities, Bodhisattvas and caravanserais painted on the walls of the Mogao caves in northwest China, considered the […]
Let Chill Brave Mr Sun
It seems as if Mr. Sun is blazing with rage devouring all the available moisture from the face of the earth. Such is the temperature nowadays with every inch of our body getting dehydrated draining us of all the energy and vigor. Less vitality and less appetite continue to turn us off making the summer […]
Biennale’s Spiritual Solace
In the classic tradition, every great work of art quintessentially offers a refuge in peace, and a profoundly personal and yet universal spirit. It digs its way into your deeper inner self in strange and unexpected ways. You feel like being hugged by a friend who, you thought, would never come back to you. It’s […]
A Recipe at Hand
SPIKY BANANA BALLS When we hear of visitors turning up we often crave for some magic recipe at hand so as to impress them well. Even though not always, sometimes something or the other may go wrong when in a hurry burry and we end up spoiling the mood. It is always desirable to have […]
A Political Myth-Making
Indeed, the popular culture of Hollywood or the American global culture forces us to see people helpless. Only the US can help and protect them from any ‘monstrosities’. After the 9/11 attack they succeeded to make us believe that they are the global police all set for an agenda with the support of media. Ben […]
Whither Art?
The Kochi Muziris Biennale, the first of its kind in India was initially celebrated in the media as an Olympics of contemporary art. The Biennale was expected to cater to and enhance the prospects of art works based on the local life of Kochi, especially the Fort Kochi, Mattancherry regions having a rich legacy of […]
Let Beet Root for You
Steamed Beet Cake I fumbled through the vegetable bin located at the base of my refrigerator in the hope of finding something that would add to the filling for my daughter’s sandwiches and found two round brown beets staring back at me. Sorry!! I shut the door simply ignoring them and continued with my chores. […]
Does the Big Screen Miss the Prophet?
Love and respect for the Prophet is part of the faith of Islam. There are so many representations of the Prophet in art and literature that it takes a voluminous space to chronicle them all. Resistance to the musical and literary representations from the Muslim orthodoxy has never been as vociferous as it has been […]
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