by Mallik Thatipalli | Feb 24, 2026
(February 24, 2026) For nearly a decade, Neelima Penumarthy has been quietly shaping how global audiences understand India, not through classrooms or textbooks, but through voice, memory, and performance. The Hyderabad-born storyteller and educator founded StoryHour...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Oct 8, 2025
(October 8, 2025) It began with a pot of boiling tar on his terrace in Delhi, a chance encounter that would alter the course of Simran KS Lamba’s life. From that molten chaos emerged a mixed media artist who finds poetry in the industrial and spirit in the discarded....
by Mallik Thatipalli | Sep 29, 2025
(September 29, 2025) Picture walking into a space where thousands of candles flicker like stars, turning grand halls and heritage venues into oceans of golden light. Timeless music, from Mozart and Vivaldi to A.R. Rahman, wraps around the audience, making each concert...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | Sep 8, 2025
(September 8, 2025) From Geneva to Sri Lanka, from South Africa to Japan, the works of Murtikar Naresh Kumar Kumawat stand as cultural ambassadors in bronze and stone. With over 600 installations including statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath...
by Vikram Sharma | Sep 5, 2025
(September 5, 2025) Upon her return from the University of Exeter, England, in 2014, Supriya Lahoti’s father, Prashant, presented her with an opportunity—rather, a challenge. A space outside Kalakriti Art Gallery, a leading gallery in Hyderabad run by Supriya’s...
