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Mixed media art is a big area of interest for art connoisseurs and the art world. It allows the ability to blend different media and opens up avenues for storytelling, conveying complex emotions, and addressing social and political issues By Namrata Kohli Did you know that Bharti Kher's mixed media artwork which had bindis on life-size fibreglass elephants sold for approximately US$1.5 million at a recent Sotheby’s auction. The artwork titled "The Skin Speaks a Language Not Its Own" was a striking piece depicting a life-size female elephant covered in numerous bindis, arranged in a serpentine pattern, that added a textured and symbolic layer to the elephant’s surface. The use of bindis alluded to the Hindu concept of the ‘third eye’ and the numeral zero. Kher is fond of using resin, bindis, found objects, and hybrid creatures in her work and her mixed media installations incorporating the bindi as a recurring motif to explore identity, mythology, and gender. Welcome to th...

  “Cinema is the single greatest cultural discipline of India ”-  Neville Tuli, Founder & President - The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.)  tells Namrata Kohli  in an exclusive conversation in the backdrop of his recent exhibition “The World’s Greatest Mela – Respecting India’s Cinematic Heritage” at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. A  curated collection of 400,000 items from Indian cinema including rare film posters, vintage booklets, hand painted artworks, promotional material, original publications were showcased on themes ranging from The  Silent Era, The Kapoors- First Family of Cinema, The Devdas Legacy – From Barua to Bimal to Bhansali, Mughal-e-Azam, Cinematic-Chemistry- from Raj-Nargis to Hema-Dharmendra.  Student groups from various educational institutions visited the exhibition and enjoyed learning about history of Indian cinema How do you look at Indian cinema and its impact on Indian culture? Cinema is the single...

  After smartphones, the most in-demand electronic devices are the headphones and wireless earbuds. The better the quality of these audio accessories, the greater the overall smartphone experience. By Namrata Kohli “I don’t want jewellery this birthday,” said 16-year-old Navika Mehta, a Delhi based Class XI student who takes her private coaching through virtual medium and is heavily dependent on headphones for her online classes. Instead, she requested her parents to invest the same amount of money in buying her Apple airpods worth Rs 60,000 which her friends use and they are 'floored' by its sound quality and noise-cancelling ability. Today everyone is seen with a headphone or an earphone or air pods- from a long-distance runner putting headphones head-to-head to a student wearing earphones to take his online classes to a work-from-home professional taking Zoom calls. People can’t seem to have enough of their beloved audio devices which they say helps them focus better on the ...