Nightingales, or “Bulbuls”, hold a special place in Persian culture, with their song representing a spiritual seeker, yearning for union with the divine. Their passionate songs are often directed towards the rose, symbolising both earthly beauty and the divine beloved and highlighting the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. GemArts launches Masala Festival 2025 with Songs of ...
Death Magic" offers a poignant journey through the intersection of neurodivergent experience and the rich tapestry of Punjabi perspectives on death, ancestry, and the enduring power of memory. This deeply personal exhibition by Sofia Barton presents a compelling collection of drawings, ethereal cyanotypes on glass, evocative paintings, and symbolically decorated rehals. These diverse mediums ...
Set in the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Nima, a schoolteacher, faces scandal when an explicit video featuring another woman who looks exactly like her surfaces online. In an effort to clear her name, she travels to the south of the country in order to find her doppelgänger, Meto, only to learn that Meto has disappeared. Locals soon start believing that Nima is in fact Meto’s ghost...
Award-winning short story writer Gurnaik Johal reads from his debut novel Saraswati, in conversation with Preti Taneja. Brimming with love, lust, violence and loss, Saraswati reveals buried ties between six relatives across the globe. Johal’s magisterial debut explores the passions that bind us to our histories, our lands, and each other.
Baadal Dvaar se Nazar (A Glimpse Through the Cloud Door), is an original experimental work by William Rees Hofmann featuring Benedict Taylor, where sarod meets viola. It explores both tradition and solitude through the dhrupad idiom on the sarod, and openness and experimentation through explorations of consonance, dissonance, harmony, timbre, and resonance on the viola. Inspired by the soundtracks...