It has been an inspiring start to 2015. While Facebook and WordPress are giving me a complete lowdown on the highlights of my previous year, they tend to ignore or…
I write this post in retrospection. In April, I enacted my first performance titled ‘What cannot be said, will be wept’, that summarized my year as a Masters student at…
Msheireb is one of the most lively places in Doha. The district still retains the old world charm of the 40s-60s, when it was once a suburb of Doha. Much…
A BIENNALE OF PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE When I took up the role of the regional curator for the Colombo Art Biennale four months ago, I never thought that this…
(This is my first essay that I have ever written on the creation of identity in the Middle East and the emergence of Museums in Qatar) Caught in the Middle…
I have spent more than three months in Doha and in this time have explored and visited the city’s famous museums like the Museum of Islamic Art, Mathaf, Katara Art…
In my previous post, The Birth of Ganesha, I narrated a story which depicted Ganesha as the creation of Goddess Parvati. There’s another story which depicts Ganesha as her creation.…
He is one of the most popular Gods for the Hindus, so popular and loved that it is customary to worship Him before starting off anything new. The elephant-headed Ganesha…
Mata Ni Pachedi Gujarati Kalamkari For the last 300 years, a wandering tribe, called the Vaghris have been keeping a tradition of sacred painting alive. This tradition of painting narratives…
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