When writer-filmmaker Tanuja Chandra was making her first film, she approached veteran lyricist Anand Bakshi to narrate the script in order to pen a few...
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26th Mar 2025 | Updated at 01:48pm 26th Mar 2025
Legacy of bold narratives and timeless art
Born in Baranagar in 1937, Arpita Singh emerged as a prominent artist in the 1960s, developing a distinctive painting practice that blends Surrealism and figuration with the narrative traditions of Indian Court painting. Throughout her career,...
Embracing heritage through experimental sound and art
‘Bitmap & Experimental Music from the Sri Lankan Diaspora’ – a groundbreaking night of three boundary-pushing audiovisual performances at Café OTO on March 31st. Curated by Toulip Wonder, alongside Suren Seneviratne and Seth De Silva, the event...
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Suraj Shah runs the Twitter and Instagram handles under the name - @BAMEBAMEBAMEE. Shah has been helping the arts community by launching this initiative where he’s collating a database of actors looking for agents as he and his team get a lot...
In the year 2017, Talat Aziz, an immensely revered and popular Ghazal singer told a leading Indian daily that ‘Ghazal may die soon’. He told Hindustan Times, “This may be disheartening for fresh singers.. there aren't too many platforms for...
The pragmatic consequences of Covid-19 have not left any sector untouched. Asian Voice has been trying to bring you stories from artists and organisations in the art sector for a few weeks now. In this edition, we spoke to Helena Bell, Artistic...
Renowned as one of the first few BBC Asian female presenters, Sahera Chohan has relaunched her late husband's book, Twenty Twenty. The book was first published...
Twenty Twenty foretells the events of the year 2020, where an ageing writer infected with a deadly virus and despairing of mankind’s continuing damage...
To educate children about Sikhism, a group of fathers in Coventry have designed a new children’s book to help young people in learning about the religion...
Jashn-e-Rekhta will present 32 digital sessions across three stages over the weekend for the UK.
