While Britain, Canada and Europe have accepted multi-culturalism as the future of the world, the U.S. continues to remain comparatively orthodox. While Britain held India Now – a fabulous event to showcase the many-splendoured culture of India during the golden jubilee of India’s Independence – and Canada recently inaugurated the biggest Hindu temple/heritage centre in [...]
Read and ReactAs the cool mists float around in India’s far-flung farms and the harvesting season yields plenty of vegetables, the people of India get ready to celebrate a festival which marks the rotation of the earth’s northern hemisphere to face the sun. It is the official waning of winter months and new warm breezes – celebrated [...]
Read and ReactI was thrilled to receive an invitation to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 and to a lecture on the importance of Public Investment in Art and having institutions like Museums and Public Art Galleries, by Mr. Chris Dercon, on 24th December 2012. Chris Dercon (Director of Tate Modern) is an art historian, a documentary filmmaker and cultural producer. In [...]
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