Art

Priyanka Panwar from Ghaziabad quit her corporate job to pursue her passion of creating illusion looks and transforming herself into famous identities.

Parshuram Gangavavne won the Padma Shri earlier this year for reviving a 500-year-old artform called Chitrakathi, wherein musicians and instrumentalists use voice modulation to narrate epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata. But do you know why Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj found this art especially useful?

Financial circumstances and regional conflicts forced Srinagar-based Maqbool Jan to drop out of school. Here’s how he made a name for himself and bagged four state awards for his art.

Kalamkari fabrics of Andhra Pradesh-based Pitchuka Srinivas are exported to Japan, Netherlands, UK, USA and Germany.

KP Rohit, a self-taught artist from Kerala, is mesmerising people with his unique aerial portraits. Take a look at some of his stunning artwork.

Bihar's Ramchandra Manjhi has overcome gender and caste-based prejudices, financial crisis and several other odds to keep ‘Naach’ alive. He narrates what it is like to be a 'cross dresser' in his career spanning eight decades.

Bipin Das, an artist from a small village near Raghurajpur, Odisha, dedicated his life preserving the art of Pattachitra. But the last two years threatened to destroy his life's work and livelihood, until he found this solution.

Several videos by farmers growing these unique designs went viral on Twitter. So we collect two of the best and speak to Srikant Ingalhaikar from Pune - an engineer turned farmer who introduced Japan's Tanbo art (paddy art) to India.

Odisha’s Raghurajpur village is a hub of Pattachitra, an indigenous art form, with at least one artist involved in the trade in every family. This art form dates back to the 12th century.

Mumbai-based photographer and cinematographer, Hemant Chaturvedi has travelled to the remotest corners to find and document hidden single-screen cinemas on the brink of shutting down.