Page 27 - Supplements

A reading of selections from Tulsidas's rendering of the many deeds of Ram

These selections from Tulsidas's rendering of the many deeds of Ram will arrest the trend of defining him as a unidimensional character

Punyakoti: Old tale turned into 1st full length animation film in Sanskrit

Seven years ago, Ravishankar Venkateswaran heard a story from a colleague during a bus ride near Bengaluru. Obsessed with it, he released the film online on March 25, 2020 in US and Canada

Ideas on how to recalibrate celebrations in the time of isolation

The strangeness brought about by a work-from-home situation means the lines between the personal and professional blur too easily.

Virulent times for the faceless millions, now on the road to uncertainty

Would we in the upper class place ourselves in the hands of the government in times such as these? And if not, why do we expect that the poor would? The Indian state is weak and lacks capacity

A bunch of homegrown shoe labels is changing how men dress up their feet

A lower price point has been a major driver of success for these brands

How might artists be keeping themselves occupied in forced confinement?

Those with home studios are fortunate to be able to work, saved from distractions - one can be sure no gallerists or collectors are pursuing them for works required for exhibitions

Homeward bound - cinematic take on the invisible lives of migrant workers

Beyond the workers' labour, these films ventured to underline their personhood - their ideas, habits, sexual appetites, fears, and capacity for feeling

As riders go home amid lockdown, queue for e-grocery orders get longer

Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge.

The travails of those who ensure food reaches our tables in Covid-19 times

A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.

With witticisms, warnings & videos on lockdown, cops turn stars on Twitter

From being quick to quell rumours and call out fake news to using popular movie dialogues to tell people to stay in, the Mumbai Police Twitter handle has been moving at dizzying speed.

From BMW to M G Motor, auto brands shift gears on the virtual highway

Specific tailored marketing pitches using first party data, smoother payment and financing processes and digital launches are among the ways in which auto majors are keeping their brands in the game.

Stay home, stay safe: Brands try to convey message of optimism amid crisis

Advertisers ask consumers to stay calm and keep their distance, find ways to keep the engagement going under a lockdown

In this coronavirus lockdown, India feels like the calm before the storm

Strong social networks got India through the calamity of demonetisation. By not giving migrant workers enough time to get home, the govt has likely deprived them of this

So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge

How Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, has been rendered somnolent

Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down. But this time the city has curled up

CHESS #1394

The Candidates tournament has been cut off due to Russia closing borders on Friday.

Since you're at home

As someone who's been operating a Small Office Home Office (SOHO) since 2002, I think I'm eminently qualified to comment on WFH

When you can't attend a performance, it comes to you: The show goes online

As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means

Albert Uderzo, 92, co-creator of French comic series Asterix, dies

Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house

Action replay: A jog down memory lane through some finest sporting moments

As we sit at home and miss live action, the wondrous phenomenon of sport has delivered so many past glories that we will probably never run out of things to see