Art & Culture | Responsible fashion | Sports-lover | Currently with The Telegraph, Calcutta. | Ex Mumbai Mirror, The New Indian Express, Times of India | Bylines also in Firstpost, DNA and The Hoot | i.anannyasarkar@gmail.com
On view from June 16 to 19, OVR: Portals saw participation from 94 galleries from across 29 countries and territories, including Experimenter from Calcutta and Chemould Prescott Road from Mumbai
The Telegraph / June 2021
Tennis round-up from the French Open
The Telegraph / June 2021
Emami Art’s exhibition pays homage to his incredible body of work and how he expertly combined his education from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta and western traditions
The Telegraph / June 2021
Three art-based Covid fundraisers have been put together to extend solidarity to the community during the pandemic
The Telegraph / May 2021
A look at Art Basel Hong Kong X Marriott Bonvoy 'A Memory of the Future' interprets local art with a global lens and an India connect
The Telegraph / May 2021
While Chitrakar relief sale features the works of 10 artists from across the country, Forever Delhi has black-and-white images photographed by Shalini Passa
The Telegraph / May 2021
Michael Kors celebrates 40 years in fashion
The Telegraph / May 2021
Jaipur Rugs on a path to holistic success Buoyed by an 85 per cent female workforce amongst its network of 40,000 artisans, criss-crossing the length and breadth of Rajasthan
The Telegraph / April 2021
Presented in the form of a fashion film jointly directed by Michele and multi-disciplinary artist and videographer Floria Sigismondi
The Telegraph / April 2021
Jamdani with a twist by this Calcutta designer
The Telegraph / April 2021
Witnessing how tradition and modernism play out in harmony in weaving the tradition beauty at Kanchipuram
The Telegraph / April 2021
Kallol Datta discusses design interventions, democratic clothing and getting shortlisted for the prestigious Jameel Prize
The Telegrph / April 2021
Tarun Tahiliani’s ‘Timelessness’ taps into that elusive feeling of comfort in couture
The Telegraph / March 2021
Sabyasachi is back at Bergdorf Goodman
The Telegraph / March 2021
A powerful backhand, abundant aces, a great serve, steely resolve and resolute athleticism define her play on court
The Telegraph / February 2021
DAG’s Ways of Seeing is a stellar art show that examines the “look” that women are subjected to as makers and muses
The Telegraph / February 2021
Author Amish Tripathi with his sister and co-author Bhavna Roy draws a parallel between Cheteshwar Pujara’s slow 50s and Yudhishtir’s Dharma
The Telegraph / February 2021
A life of giving to better the lives of others is the only kind of living known to Sudha Murty
The Telegraph / January 2021
Chameli Ramachandran’s art work is a unique confluence of Chinese meditative practices and inspiration from the lush flora of Bengal
The Telegraph / January 2021
Seasonless fashion in clever layers
The Telegraph / January 2021
The limited edition spring-summer ’21 collection draws from a variety of inspirations such as Indonesian dyeing techniques, nature, Moorish design and sun-steeped landscapes
The Telegraph / January 2021
They are few but a force to reckon with. Taking a look at eight women helming some iconic global fashion houses
The Telegraph / December 2020
The upcoming art exhibition will be the gallery’s first post-Covid physical exhibition
The Telegraph / December 2020
A new chapter in his quest to preserve the Jamdani legacy
The Telegraph / December 2020
Though the physical festival stands postponed for a fairer time, the organisers are meanwhile putting their best virtual foot forward with an online curation.
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Fashionable and festive, the collection is a mediterranean postcard from spending a day under the sunlit Casablanca skies and strolling by the archways in Marrakech at dusk.
The Telegraph / December 2020 / [Jpeg , 260 KB]
Works in cast glass that are part of this exhibition showcase Bawa’s mastery of the contrasts of working with the said medium, while simultaneously establishing a dialogue between light and space.
The Telegraph / November 2020 / [Jpeg , 240 KB]
Curated by Bhavna Kakar in collaboration with Indira Prasad and Shubhani Sharma, the exhibition will show the works of Abhishek Narayan Verma, Al-Qawi Nanavati, Shalina Vichitra and Yogesh Ramkrishna.
The Telegraph / November 2020 / [Jpeg , 130 KB]
Born in the hands of the custodian of a 600-year-old legacy in textiles, Alamelu is a label steeped in Indian heritage yet designed to be agnostic towards regional affiliations and universal in its wearability.
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The Art Platform India, better known as TAP India, is back with its second iteration as an extension of its endeavour to assimilate the works of multiple leading galleries and art institutes on one platform.
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The collection reimagines intimate but glamorous festive soirees where modern Indians dress in contemporary silhouettes as they clink their champagne flutes under the nippy skies and embrace the warmth of Indian craft traditions.
The Telegraph / November 2020
This year it will witness a key speaker from their previous iterations reflect on the impact of time on their respective practices
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The eloquent duo shared their insights that they have painstakingly accrued over the years during a recent chat
The Telegraph / November 2020 / [Jpeg , 273 KB]
The 'phygital' fashion week allowed access to all alike from the comfort of their homes as through collection after collection, designers put forth their reaffirmation of how the show must go down
The Telegraph / November 2020
To secure the future, the present needs to be bolstered by craft cultures and traditions of our rich past to facilitate a truly sustainable fashion industry
The Telegraph / October 2020
You may or may not agree with his politics but you cannot discount Shashi Tharoor’s brand of multi-hyphenate and his "funnybone".
The Telegraph / October 2020
Sustainability was put in the limelight with three conscious designers getting chosen for this segment at LFW
The Telegraph / October 2020
Aroh, an online art exhibition by Emami Art brings forth an assimilation of varied practices by 12 artists who are the winners of the first Emami Art Open Call - Mentorship and Exhibition Programme 2020.
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As a part of Frieze London’s Online Viewing Room, Experimenter is presenting the works of Ayesha Sultana, Biraaj Dodiya, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Praneet Soi and Radhika Khimji.
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Big names with a mix of digital and physical, presented to the world their optimistic takes on what our next spring/summer could look like
The Telegraph / October 2020
Alessandro Michele is supporting the 2020 Art Quadriennale FUORI, a major exhibition of Italian art to open in Rome in October.
The Telegraph / October 2020
Imagine the 60s-70s and a sartorially impeccable Jackie O jetsetting across the world with her beloved Gucci saddlebag on one arm — and now, it’s back.
The Telegraph / October 2020
These are the stories that we became privy to when we tuned in for a special chat featuring Obeetee’s Rudra Chatterjee and designers Tarun Tahiliani, Abraham & Thakore, Raghavendra Rathore, Shantanu & Nikhil and JJ Valaya
The Telegraph / September 2020
Keeping in tune with the world that we are inhabiting, fashion has also toned down. It’s time we bid au revoir to maximalism and embrace minimalism in both pret and couture.
The Telegraph / September 2020
After the pandemic-induced hiatus, the gallery reopens with four solo positions by Ayesha Sultana, Julien Segard, Krishna Reddy and Rathin Barman.
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The collection that is inspired by the urban nightlife scene of the ’70s and the subculture that it birthed, is contemporary, chic and all things Pero by way of how it’s made in India.
The Telegraph / September 2020
A rare fusion of tradition and modernity in a way that melds Indian craft with futuristic styles
The Telegraph / September 2020
We spoke to the founders of two such virtual platforms to understand the why and how of it
The Telegraph / September 2020
Mukherjee’s three-year-old jewellery brand is a long way coming from his days of yore of making jewellery along with Gariahat hawkers and a longtime coming, given his incredible rise to fame since then.
The Telegraph / September 2020
Called A Mechanical Eye, Studies of Lattice and Light; the artist employs the technology of photogrammetry and 3D scanning to blur the lines between digital and analog
The Telegraph / September 2020
The designer has reiterated his support for our craftsmen and artisans for a while now and this is just him walking the talk, albeit with a lot of swagger and sartorial fabulosity.
The Telegraph / September 2020
His works are an intersectional tour de force of art, craft and design, which bears testimony to his unbounded love for Indian heritage, of which he has become a savant and a crusader
The Telegraph / September 2020
When it comes to life and their respective crafts, they unite as they revel in that revered little nook where art is incidental to their craft and transcends man-made notions of what it should be to explore what it could be.
The Telegraph / September 2020
The four solos come together for Four Positions, skilfully using the Ballygunge Place gallery to offer four distinctly different practices and thoughts
The Telegraph / September 2020
For JJ Valaya, fashion is as much about all things sartorial as it is about romance and oodles of oomph. When the website belongs to Valaya who has championed the cause of maximalism for posterity, it fits right in.
The Telegraph / August 2020
With her is her all-women team that is cooking up a storm, one plate of Dum Biryani at a time, as Khan goes about working to usher in bigger changes.
The Telegraph / August 2020
This joint art showcase that is curated by Arjun Sawhney marks the coming together of a set of very distinguished artists such as Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Thukral and Tagra, Shilpa Gupta and more
The Telegraph / August 2020
Since history started immortalising the earliest of etchings as the beginning of recording art in the subcontinent, India’s artistic gamut and glory today is a wide horizon dotted with many spectacular names and their priceless contributions.
The Telegraph / August 2020
The designer is on a mission to build a carbon-neutral fashion empire
The Telegraph / August 2020
As a tribute to its love for nature and as testimony to its legacy of getting inspired by the same, Good Earth has come up with a limited-edition art print series called the Lockdown Dreamscapes
The Telegraph / August 2020
He believes in a form of storytelling that offers the wholesome picture so that we realise that it is actually a great thing to be called a “Sati-Savitri” and not something to be ashamed of
The Telegraph / July 2020
From organising one of India’s first fashion shows as we know it now, way back in 1988 to his first full-fledged digital show, here's the designer in his usual tongue-in-cheek spirit
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As we miss this year's big W, here's looking back
The Telegraph / July 2020
The singer-songwriter on his latest video featuring his fans
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Examining various connotations in motion, mind and life through a series of three artistic collaborations
The Telegraph / July 2020
The June OVR edition saw leading Indian galleries such as Experimenter, Jhaveri Contemporary and Chemould Prescott Road take part
The Telegraph / July 2020
To sustain business during these difficult times, the lowest rungs of the ladder must be protected, says the duo
The Telegraph / July 2020
From the London outlet of Indian Accent to the famous Le15 of Mumbai -- here's how they were forced to fold due to Covid-19
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‘People have always understood history through the prism of the present and this has happened throughout human history’
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Sitting in Manhattan, the celebrity chef could not stomach the stories of suffering and he put out his #FeedIndia plan on Twitter and asked for help
The Telegraph / June 2020 / [Jpeg , 271 KB]
Art defined by use of colours aplenty, the recurrent leitmotif of love and the motif of eyes — big, bold and bewitching
The Telegraph / June 2020
'It’s all about honouring the body' -- says the Bollywood actress who, of her own admission, has finally reached a point of loving her own body.
The Telegraph / May 2020
As a part of their initiative to train inmates of the Alipore Women’s Correctional Home, Door of Maai, the city-based sustainable ready-to-wear label teaches women a new craft
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What does it mean to live with time on loop within a space that is inhibited, instead of letting "winged fancy roam" for people of the arts?
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While we miss what could have been on the steps of The Met this year, here’s a retrospective on what has been and has remained in our collective fashion psyche from the gala over the years.
The Telegraph / May 2020
British auction house Christie’s handbag specialist Lucile Andreani on the 100 years of French luxury fashion brand Hermes’s handbags — from the iconic Kelly to the coveted Birkin.
The Telegraph / May 2020
The business is revving to conquer newer realms when it comes to creating bespoke, luxurious, quality homes
The Telegraph / April 2020
'I am attracted to things or processes that demand a kind of slowness and I appreciate that'
The Telegraph / April 2020
As businesses take a hit, the Indian fashion industry is fighting to survive
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Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command on his impressive collection of masks
The Telegraph / April 2020 / [Jpeg , 305 KB]
Bill Withers -- an obit
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Taking a look at how the fashion industry is giving back in these difficult times
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In the times of the coronavirus, galleries and museums are stepping up to take art home
The Telegraph / March 2020 / [Jpeg , 326 KB]
He talks about his love for the written word, irrespective of the medium
The Telegraph / April 2020 / [Jpeg , 256 KB]
A recent exhibition look at the Indian dichotomy of how women are both deified and raped
The Telegraph / March 2020 / [Jpeg , 164 KB]
A healthy dose of protest through performances and speeches and a shot at redemption by shattering 92 years of history
The Telegraph / February 2020 / [Jpeg , 245 KB]
The Bauhaus aesthetic experience, circa 1919 Germany, is pivotal to the exhibition that was featured in the Serendipity Arts Festival
The Telegraph / January 2020
Chocolat lady Joanne Harrison on finding a voice that is ‘sensually immersive’ and why the world needs to wake up to women authors
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As Maria Sharapova says goodbye to tennis, here’s looking back at a stellar career
The Telegraph / February 2020 / [Jpeg , 230 KB]
Nandita Das on creating a book capturing her journey with Saadat Hasan Manto and his enduring value in today’s world
The Telegraph / February 2020
Spunky, artistic, stylish and a lady who means business — designer Payal Khandwala is an embodiment of her eponymous label that makes “considered” clothing for the modern woman.
The Telegraph / January 2020
Culinary school, MasterChef Australia, extensive travels across the world and in India, cookbooks and a restaurant in Goa later, Sarah is all set to don the chef’s hat for the AO Chef Series on the sidelines of the Australian Open
The Telegraph / January 2020
Crafts are synonymous with our country and Samant Chauhan knows more than just a thing or two about it.
The Telegraph / January 2020
A festival round-up of what pleased my eyes and mind.
The Telegraph / January 2020
Plus Noel Gallagher made a guest appearance, though just for one song
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On the heels of Experimenter Curator Hub, Natasha Ginwala, Zoe Butt and Paz Guevera on their curatorial practices and experiences
The Telegraph / November 2019 / [Jpeg , 383 KB]
Smriti Rajgarhia, director, Serendipity Arts Festival, on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of the festival
The Telegraph / November 2019
The couturier-duo on making pret
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Good Earth celebrates 10 years of Sustain with their stunning Sindhu showcase
The Telegraph / November 2019 / [Jpeg , 252 KB]
The singer on 'with you/for you', his new tour and making new music
The Telegraph / October 2019 / [Jpeg , 370 KB]
From the buzzing F&B scene of Melbourne to a wine-rich Yarra Valley, Victoria is a treasure trove for foodies
The Telegraph / September 2019
Four-time Nat'l Award-winning designer Neeta Lulla on juggling Bollywood and mainstream fashion
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From sports essential to fashion must, what's the secret and the business behind the rise of sneakers?
The Telegraph / August 2019
Three menswear designers or making men dapper
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Home to AC/DC, the Australian Open and the majestic Melbourne Cricket Ground, there's nothing not to love about Melbourne.
The Telegraph / August 2019
One is a stalwart of the corporate world while the other gave up a career there to start penning his books
The Telegraph / August 2019
Adman Prahlad Kakkar talks about his love for ads and the ocean
The Telegraph / August 2019
Acid-attack victim Laxmi Agarwal on loving her face and trying to get the judiciary make laws in favour of burn victims.
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San Francisco's Taj Campton Place, helmed by Gopinathan, just won their second Michelin star
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 263 KB]
He has made mythology attractive to GenY and believes that there are more stories in his head than he can tell in his lifetime
The Telegraph / August 2019
Accompanied by Shantanu Pandit and Dhruv Bhola, Ditty was in Calcutta to perform a playlist from her album, Poetry Ceylon
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A peek at the woman behind the scenes
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Fresh from the Venice Biennale, photographer Soham Gupta talks about his artistic expression
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 261 KB]
Designer Ujjawal Dubey of Antar-Agni in a tete-a-tete
The Telegraph / June 2019 / [Jpeg , 368 KB]
Artist Shilo Shiv Suleman is on a quest
The Telegraph / June 2019
The leading couturier talks fashion, royalty and legacy
The Telegraph / May 2019
Belvedere’s Studio B is buzzing with this creative quartet
The Telegraph / April 2019
Modern interpretations of a 17th Century art form that originated in Udaipur’s Nathdwara where the artists would painstakingly depict stories of Krishna traditionally on cloth and hang it behind the idol of Srinathji
The Telegraph / May 2019
Why do Hollywood A-listers, supermodels and pop stars love London based haute couture label Aadnevik? t2oS finds out
The Telegraph / March 2019
A chat with the man behind the album that's fast becoming the anthem of the underdog
The Telegraph / March 2019
Inside the world of Guerrilla Girls — an anonymous feminist artist ensemble that has been shaking up the art-world for over three decades
The Telegraph / March 2019
Snapshots from the opening ceremony and the musts on your art list
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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. We delve deeper.
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Behind what has perhaps become the biggest rage of the discernible music scene of the country since December 2018 is a 28-year-old bloke looking to write from his heart and make the world listen, the Bollywood shebang included.
The Telegraph / January 2019 / [Jpg , 365 KB]
Shashi Tharoor on his book, 'The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and his India'
The Telegraph / December 2018
Excerpts from a chat with Aatish Taseer as his latest book The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges, hits book shelves.
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Critically acclaimed British satirist, host of the international hit podcast The Bugle, cricket commentator and broadcaster Andy Zaltzman was in the city for a live recording for the Calcutta leg of BBC Radio 4's Empire-ical Evidence.
The Telegraph / October 2018 / [Jpeg , 264 KB]
The story behind the creation of a sub-culture, helmed by Bhaane.
The Telegraph / January 2019 / [Jpeg , 257 KB]
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
Delhi-based art collector Shalini Passi, a patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, talks all things art
The Telegraph / November 2018
As an electronic musician, he likes to weave his surroundings into his creative work, like the sound of trucks lumbering on the roads of Tehran; as an artiste, he refuses to be compartmentalised, and often tweaks Johnny Cash lyrics to fit his sound.
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.
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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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