Art & Culture
Postcard from Tokyo
A profound stillness underpins the world capital of frenzied materialism
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The Imperial ‘I’
Is Richard Serra’s colossal sculpture in the desert anti-environmental McArt, asks Sharif S Elmusa
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A MultiCulti Wonderland
By eschewing hybridity for religion, children of subcontinental immigrants to Britain choose clarity and certainty. Shougat Dasgupta prefers Hanif Kureishi’s celebration of confusion
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Gods are Human Too
Classical art, with its formality, made the past remote. Folk art gave it back some life, writes Rupika Chawla
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His Master’s Voice
Anando Mukerjee on his teacher, the great Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda who died in January. Renowned for the beauty of his tone, Gedda connected Mukerjee to opera history
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The Poet-Scholar
A conversation with Guillermo Rodriguez, the author of When Mirrors are Windows: A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics (OUP, 2016) and the founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering cultural centre in Spain
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THE HIMALAYA
Stephen Alter, editor for The Himalaya issue, brings into focus what really goes on between mountains and climbers, and between inhabitants and travellers
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High Culture
Mountain heritage is as fragile as its environment. Conservationist Anupam Sah recounts his Kumaon childhood, describes the similarity of traditions across the Himalaya and prescribes an approach to preserving this precious heritage, both built and intangible
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