Hard news and culture bug, currently with The Telegraph, Calcutta. | Previously with Mumbai Mirror, The New Indian Express and Times of India. | Bylines also in Firstpost, DNA and The Hoot. | i.anannyasarkar@gmail.com
What happens when a group of women decide to let go of all the negativity surrounding them and embrace the positive? They tap into their potential and unleash the power to make art.
The Telegraph / March 2018
Some of the top hotels around the globe bear his signature touch as well as something as small as an espresso machine.
The Telegraph / December 2017
She also happens to be Kochi-Muziris Biennale's first female curator, a role that she takes "seriously".
The Telegraph / November 2018 / [Jpeg , 198 KB]
For scenographer Swarup Dutta, questions on identity were a natural reaction to his socio-political being, with about 20 years in the arts, be it fashion, design, scenography or teaching. Therefore, the nomenclature of his first solo exhibition expressing
The Telegraph / November 2018 / [Jpeg , 202 KB]
Delhi-based art collector Shalini Passi, a patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, talks all things art
The Telegraph / November 2018
Critically acclaimed British satirist, host of the international hit podcast The Bugle, cricket commentator and C broadcaster Andy Zaltzman was at CC&FC last month for a live recording for the Calcutta leg of BBC Radio 4's Empire-ical Evidence, with homeb
The Telegraph / October 2018 / [Jpeg , 264 KB]
As an electronic musician, Makan Ashgvari likes to weave his surroundings into his creative work, like the sound of trucks lumbering on the roads of Tehran where he lives. As an artiste, Makan refuses to be compartmentalised, and to help more such indepen
The Telegraph / June 2018
What drives dancer Daksha Sheth even after five decades is the desire to create a new language of movement
The Telegraph / April 2018
Metro-sexual, free-spirited and well-turned out are the buzz words now.
The Telegraph / June 2018
When we met Italian dancer Stefano Fardelli, he had just walked into The Doodle Room in Hazra with the swagger of a fashion model dressed in all black, his affability belying the fact that he had just been fleeced by a local cabbie on a trip to the Victor
The Telegraph / June 2018
Like her dad, young author Zuni Chopra wants to chase excellence
The Telegraph / June 2018
Tucked away in a quiet south Calcutta bylane, Experimenter's second home opens doors with "I Wish To Let You Fall Out Of My Hand -- II"
The Telegraph / March 2018
Kunal Kapur got into an animated discussion on cooking, food trends and his latest show Curries of India
The Telegraph / June 2018
In conversation with Mohsin Hamid after Exit West got onto the Man Booker shorlist.
The Telegraph / October 2017
Meet Brown Boy founder Prateek Kayan, who left a cushy American job to set up shop at home.
The Telegraph / March 2018 / [Jpg , 409 KB]
A city brand's quest to change the world, one bag at a time
The Telegraph / July 2017
I am comfortable with the idea of home being a fluid concept, which you carry around wherever you go — Kamila Shamsie turns the page with t2
The Telegraph / August 2017
A look into the obscenity of religious donations.
DNA / March 2017
In 1955, Parisians were taken aback by a novel so crude in its subject and so offensive in its content but so utterly beautiful in its wordplay that their curiosity alone propelled the novel to fame.
The New Indian Express / April 2017
As ironic as it sounds, Dickens’ malevolent character is well-loved in literature
The New Indian Express / March 2017
A story of women empowering and saving a village from the clutches of trafficking
Firstpost / February 2017
Acid-attack laws put under the scanner
Firstpost / February 2017
Capote’s ‘heroine’ inspired women of the time but he gives no hint whether she finds what she is looking for
The New Indian Express / March 2016
It’s ridiculous that even after 106 years of the strike by the Ladies Worker’s Garment’s Union in America, we still have the need to commemorate Women’s Day as a reminder that we need our rights.
The New Indian Express / March 2015
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