arts, culture and entertainment

Power to the frame | Winners of the CPB Photo Awards 2024

The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation’s hunt for impactful images with meaningful stories is now in ...

Step inside a painting, travel in VR pods: Here’s how immersive technology is changing the global art world

A dark corridor, occasionally illumined by bright red and yellow flowers, leads one to what seems li...

The world’s first 100% biodegradable pen launches in India

Did you know that over 50 billion ballpoint pens are trashed every year? And that 95% of a conventio...

Bengaluru Airport City Limited unveils investment plans for business park and 775-room combo hotel at KIA

Bengaluru Airport City Limited (BACL) has unveiled its investment plan for a two million square feet...

Bengaluru’s Sampige Foundation restores worn out images of deities 

In January this year, an Instagram reel of a rare 50-year-old picture of Laxmana’s wife, Urmila, wen...

Handmade knitwear, jewellery at Busy Fingers pop-up in Bengaluru

Last year, six women entrepreneurs who are behind handcrafted brands in the city came together to cr...

With 22 carat gold bands and elegant motifs, this Chennai brand’s dinnerware will make you want to throw a party soon

There are walk-in closets, we know. But Anusha Ashyanth has a walk-in crockery closet that is brimmi...

U.S. Library of Congress spotlights its American 'treasures'

The U.S. Library of Congress houses more than just books, with a new exhibit opening this week highl...

Saudi Netflix show creator says convicted by anti-terrorism court

Saudi TV creator Abdulaziz Almuzaini, whose animated Netflix show has made waves for breaking social...

Artificial Intelligence finds a spot on Korea’s Bucheon Film Festival

This year’s edition of Asia’s largest genre film festival introduced a new category for films made w...

Fire breaks out at London’s Somerset House, home to priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne

Around 125 firefighters tackled a large blaze at London's historic Somerset House Cultural centre on...

Madras Day | Artists craft apparel and stationery themed on Madras’ architecture and culture

Kollywood shots @ Mahaxarts “The city and its layered history is my muse in most of my personal proj...

Jenjum Gadi immortalises his mother’s garden in his debut art show, Apase

Born in a small village in Arunachal Pradesh called Tirbin, noted fashion designer Jenjum Gadi’s mem...

Soorya Krishnamoorthy displays his collection of 2,000-plus art works on Ganesha on the occasion of Ganesh Chathurthi

Two thousand artistic works featuring Lord Ganesha is one of the attractions of the Vinayaka Chathur...

Indonesian villagers dress corpses in ritual for the dead

A family on an Indonesian island poses with a relative dressed in a school uniform, while an elderly...

Vilayilveedu family makes the ritualistic Onavillu dedicated to the main deity at Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple

Six-year-old Shivaparvathi is a picture of concentration as she nimbly fills in the colours on a fig...