By Kanchi Shah

Apart from being a space of contestation and politics, Culture is also carrier of our identity and struggles. It is in the art forms of the cultures that experience of our constantly transforming being is marked up to some degree. Looking at them from a distance of time and space can help us make some tentative sense of gender dynamics, social arrangements, belief systems, occupation, idea of good, bad, kinship, power dynamics, struggles, etcetera of the culture that the art form belongs/ed to.

By Kanak Astha

Misty clouds giving the dark sky a faded glow,

Are few of the things Bengaluru has with it.

It is the city where lanes go silent after 12,

by Rajat Sebastian

It was her first time in Saree. Thirty years of her life in the United States never gave a chance to try one out. Heading out to her new office, she wrapped it up as well as she could.

By Gokul Jayan

This is the only sentimental thing which Bengaluru offered me. 

I as a human being, never ever counted upon nature as a solace giving entity.  Some say, you can be one with the nature if you start loving someone. This didn’t work out either. For me, to love someone is to care till the last breath. For a man who had no strong points, the cat was the only peace giver at home. Sharing made easy through him. The yawn made me happy and the purring made me more happy. The fur ball was everywhere. A day without ten sneeze made my day incomplete. 

By Gokul Jayan

Day 1 

Starting off from Trivandrum, I headed to the typical sunburn offshore ‘Kovalam’ to unfold that traveller in me. A tinge of tanning can be used to purge my inside out.  Anyway, before getting deteriorated by the sea salted breeze, I headed to Napier Museum, which is one of the famous museums in India.