Artist Amrita Sher-Gil's In the Ladies' Enclosure became the second most expensive Indian work of art sold globally, after fetching a whopping Rs 37.8 crore at Saffronart's recent Summer Live......
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com finds out why Sacred Games has run into trouble. Just four days after Sacred Games started streaming in India and around the Netflix universe, Netflix's first......
Groundbreaking HIV researcher Dr Suniti Solomon, the first to bring to the world the prevalence of the infection in India in 1986 and one who successfully led research into the treatment of the......
While booklovers and the media are busy celebrating Indian authors who write in English, they still harbour (subconsciously?) a step-motherly attitude towards those who write in Indian languages.......
Reading the publicity notes for Vikram Chandra's mammoth Sacred Games -- variously hailed as the Fiction Event of the Year and the latest Great Indian Novel - it's easy to be misled into thinking......
What makes Indian abstract art more valuable is its relative rarity.V S Gaitonde, S H Raza and J Swaminathan are the only major names in modern Indian art known for their abstracts, reports Namrata......
So much has happened in Indian art in the last four years. Values have changed completely; Indian art has been noticed globally. It is said that there is a $350 million-art market now in India,......
At his home studio in a vast, vacant plot of scrubland on the border of Mehrauli, artist Jagannath Panda is juggling with six different ideas on six different canvases. The proposed exhibition of......
Are you one of those who wondered why a horse drawn by M F Hussain fetched over Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) or an abstract by V S Gaitonde fetched Rs 92 lakh (Rs 9.2 million) at a recent auction?The......
The Web series Bambai Meri Jaan has put the spotlight back to the dark days when the underworld overran Mumbai. The gangster saga is a popular subject with film and serial makers, particularly when......
Thrillers are the most popular shows on streaming platforms, and Hindi OTT channels do this genre well, even of some of the series are adapted from foreign sources. The crime thriller can be......
A third season of Netflix's Sacred Games seems out of the question, reveals Nawazuddin Siddiqui. "Sacred Games got the kind of worldwide acclaim that none of us associated with the series had seen......
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. IMAGE: Nawazuddin......
Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manjinder S Sirsa tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf why he is furious with the director and actor of Sacred Games 2. Five days after it went on air on August 15, Netflix's Sacred......