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The Magnificent Pencil Pushers: The Planet’s Leading Miniature Carvers Working on the Sharp End, Part 2

There is no topic that those micro sculptors with mad skills can't pencil in: from Baby Yoda to endangered species, from complex engineering to the taboo of menstruation.

March 30th, 2020|Country: Bashkortostan, India, Russia, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, USA, Vietnam|

Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Adi Pushp II, 1999

Met Breuer holds the first US retrospective of the late Indian sculptor who created a cosmos out of hemp fiber: organic and abstract shapes mesmerize with their beauty and the labor behind them

August 21st, 2019|Country: India|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Film: The Last Color, dir. Vikas Kanna, 2019

Eye candy premier feature from celebrity chef about the friendship of two untouchables: an orphan girl and a widow living in an ashram, and the political change it brought

May 30th, 2019|Country: India|

Film: Good Guy, Bad Guy, dir. Indu Krishnan, 2018

A smart documentary on the imperfections of charity cases portrayed through the director's relationship with a Bangalore ragpicker

May 27th, 2019|Country: India|

Film: Chuskit, dir. Priya Ramasubban, 2018

An organic non-GMO artisanal feel-good film for the whole family about a paraplegic girl in the mountains of Himalaya

May 23rd, 2019|Country: India|

Film: Kia and Cosmos, dir. Sudipto Roy, 2018

An Indian adaptation of “A Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time” with incredible child actor, available on Netflix

May 18th, 2019|Country: India|

Arundhati Roy’s Freedom to Write Speech, 2019

Fearless writer talks about finding shelter from the tyranny in literature

May 14th, 2019|Country: India, Kashmir|

Film: Cat Sticks, dir. Ronny Sen, 2019

A mesmerizing narrative of heroin addicts in rainy Kolkata

May 13th, 2019|Country: India|

Film: Bhonsle, dir. Devashish Makhija, 2018

A retired Marathi cop played by Manoj Bajpayee confronts xenophobia in his chwal

May 10th, 2019|Country: India|

Book: Perumal Merugan, One Part Woman, 2010

January 10th, 2019|Country: India|

Music: Lykanthea, Migration, 2014

August 31st, 2018|Country: India, USA|

Book: Neel Mukherjee, A State of Freedom, 2017

June 18th, 2018|Country: India|

Film: Nocturne Indien, dir. Alain Corneau, 1989

May 12th, 2018|Country: France, India, Italy|