Tuesday, June 4 2013
Farewell, Maestro: Rituparno Ghosh (1963-2013)
Upon the untimely death of the Indian film director Rituparno Ghosh, PopMatters remembers his remarkable career as a director, screenwriter and activist.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s ‘Oleander Girl’ Captures the Complex, ‘Real’ India
Explaining India to non-Indians is never easy, but this book may achieve that goal by illustrating not just the chaos, but the simple truth that for all of its bedlam, it is still a place of resolute, obdurate tradition.
Monday, December 20 2010
Dharohar Project, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons: EP
A British musician sings a line, an Indian picks up the line and shoots it off into a Sufi-esque corkscrew.
Tuesday, September 21 2010
‘Dreaming in Hindi’: Total Immersion, or Panicked Submersion?
Even at 45, Rich must defend her reputation. As she filters it through what would have been her acquired Hindi: “I have not been bringing men up to my room. I have not been throwing condoms onto people’s roofs.”
Monday, September 13 2010
Ravi Shankar: Nine Decades Vol. 1 1967-1968
An act of classical intricacy performed with athletic rigor.
Monday, August 16 2010
Paban Das Baul: Music of the Honey Gatherers
Noises occur and vibrate so that the implications of the sounds and the gradations of silence around them have a significance of their own.
Tuesday, June 1 2010
Bharat Karki & Party: International Music
A blithe mixture of Indian music and psychedelic funk recorded in Calcutta during the late 1970s.
Tuesday, April 27 2010
Tribeca Film Festival 2010: Road, Movie
Instead of plying song and dance like a traditional Bollywood film, Road, Movie beguiles a real life cinema audience with hair tonic. Yet when the movie is finally over, we're left with snake oil.
Tuesday, February 23 2010
Red Baraat: Chaal Baby
Mainly instrumental tunes, at least two of which might be familiar even to listeners who have only a brief acquaintance with Indian music
