Madness, Manish Mitra, and the Mahabharata
By Debmalya Bandopadhyay One sunny Calcutta morning in June, Baba called and asked, ‘Sara raat natok dekhte jabi?‘—Want to go watch an all-night play? I knew instantly what he meant. For years, Manish Mitra’s Urubhangam had sat on my bucket list, taking absurdly long to be ticked off. My answer was immediate. ‘It lasts almost […]
Hariharan’s concert at NCPA Bandish: The timelessness of the ghazal form
‘Dekh to dil ki jaan se uthta hai/ye dhuan sa kahan se uthta hai’ – Hariharan spends a few extra seconds on the word ‘dhuan’, almost like lingering on the lover’s doorstep, playing with the notes such that one feels like they can see the word going up in smoke. When he sings ‘Aisa na […]
The Comfort Amid Art: My Time at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2024
From the ind.igenous desk I am a loner. Most of the nice things I do in life, I do all by myself – attending concerts, exhibitions, watching films, plays, staring at a sunset. I’ve grown to become quite skilled at the art of solitude. I was invited to the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts […]
Amazing Feet, Devil Hands and Boat 91
ind.igenous partnered with Projekt, the film, photography, and scriptwriting society of Lady’s Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi, for their annual fest, Tarang. Projekt organized a scriptwriting competition, Staccato, at which Pragya Pai, a second-year English student from Miranda House, Delhi, won first place. ind.igenous is delighted to publish her script. SETTING: Inside a Delhi […]
‘By the Artists, for the Artists’: The Sixth Year of Impressions
Ind.igenous was once again invited to Impressions, the annual fest organized by the College of Engineering, Pune. After a very successful fifth edition which was held virtually in the winter of 2020 owing to the pandemic, Impressions returned this year in hybrid mode over three days in December, keeping alive their motto of ‘By the […]
College Fests in the Time of COVID
With 2020 throwing up an array of hardships at people from all walks of life, the arts and entertainment industry has been especially affected, with theatres shutting down, concerts becoming an impossibility, or a chunk of supporting artists finding themselves out of a job, overnight. For the ones who’ve been privileged enough to sit at […]
