A bond that becomes stronger with fights and sharing of clothes and is held together with the pure thread of Rakshabandhan, that’s the bond of a sibling. Besides being your partner in crime when you want to sneak out of the house late at night or order food when you are hungry, siblings hold an … Continue reading "Sibling Support System"| Open The Magazine
Last year, when Ritesh Uttamchandani was in Manchester in England, he began putting together pictures he had been taking, of individuals looking straight at him, into a PDF document. He had travelled there to live with his partner – who had moved from Mumbai to work as a doctor in a hospital – for a … Continue reading "Manchester by the Lens"| Open The Magazine
In the silence of the gallery BluePrint.12, with nothing more than the low hum of the air conditioner, Devika Sundar’s work draws you in. Diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a disorder characterised by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues, Sundar (born in 1992), in documenting her numerous X-rays and other medical scans … Continue reading "Stories of Our Scars"| Open The Magazine
As a star, what can one do apart from earn a packet? Embracing progressive cinema could be a start, especially in an industry so devoid of such issues. So, it is good to have actors such as Rajkummar Rao who think beyond their own roles and look at the big picture. His last few films … Continue reading "Rajkummar Rao: Star Power"| Open The Magazine
SEVENTY-SEVEN years after Freedom at Midnight, the “open skies of history” beckon to us. What do they point to? Not Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history.” But Kala Bhairava. Benjamin’s famous essay, ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’ in the original German, first translated into English and published in Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt (1969), is where … Continue reading "The Open Skies of History"| Open The Magazine
SOME YEARS AGO, when the journalist Neha Dixit was researching the lives of home-based workers, most of whom are women, she began to visit the many tiny factories that dot the neighbourhood of Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi. This industrial area on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border is where coincidentally much of the violence in the … Continue reading "An Unknown Indian"| Open The Magazine
