New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- As much as we are bound to deadlines, page views, news cycles and the other perennial challenges of magazine and culture journalism, to work at Lounge is to take the longer view,... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There's so much about the Winter Olympics that's baffling-why "skimo"; who thought skiing and shooting together is a good idea (biathlon); how does curling, which looks like some... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- They're simple lines and strokes, but each of the birds that veteran Cholamandal artist Premalatha Seshadri sketches express a different mood. I came across her work many years a... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Art often seems baffling because as human beings we seek firm logic. We want things to 'make sense', but art can leave us unmoored simply because it does not make sense in the way... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Before it was banned in India, TikTok ate up unhealthy amounts of my day. I got a lot of eye-rolls when I said it but I loved the humour, the carefree attitude and the reality of... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- In a surprisingly short period of time, Artificial Intelligence has ripped into every aspect of life, business, arts, leisure, society, entertainment. Every so often, Lounge repo... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- There's always drama at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and not just because the art can be a mixed bag of the inspired and the incomprehensible. We're a month into the sixth edition... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- There's always drama at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and not just because the art can be a mixed bag of the inspired and the incomprehensible. We're a month into the sixth edition... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- I have a set shopping list of souvenirs no matter where I go, buys to bring back for friends who collect all manner of ephemera-the front page of a local newspaper for a former b... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- For the past ten days, the imaginative Nithya Subramanian-who is a regular artist for Lounge-has been turning her toddler's plates into colourful circles of art. Dosa landscapes, ... Read More