Kala Ghoda Art Festival

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Colourful Visitors At Kala Ghoda

So much of the colour at Kala Ghoda comes from not just the artists but the visitors as well. That little street is awash with colour. Art students display their fledgling works. Aspiring writers congregate with journalists. Photographers stroll around, cameras casually hung around their necks. Families wander around wonder…

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Kala Ghoda mela

The art district of Mumbai is hosting a festival. Movies are being screened, workshops conducted, books discussed, plays (and other acts) staged. There is also a mela happening! Don’t believe me? Here is a potter. He beckons…come closer. A grinning imp, paint streaked across his face settles down to touch…

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PenTathalon: A Mental Workout & Five Writing Exercises

The PenTathalon sounded like fun. And unnerving given its ‘Five Exercises for Fiction Writers’ description. What does a fiction writer look like, one wondered. I found out on the morning of Saturday, 3rd February. Kavita Bhanot, the workshop leader, turned out to be a charming, soft-spoken young lady with a…

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Melee At The Mela – The Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2008

I’ve spent the entire weekend at Kala Ghoda!! I’ve been a regular visitor to the festival these years and thus far my KGAF experience has been limited to perusing the sidewalk outside Jehangir Art Gallery and ooh-ing and aah-ing about the artwork. This year I’m super-excited this time round because…

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Almost Normal – A Book At The Kala Ghoda Art Festival

The Kala Ghoda Art Festival this year takes me back to my campus days of festival-hopping. Make the trip for one event, bump into a whole lot of people who on reflection you know just will be there, catch another event completely on impulse and in general have a phlethora…