TOWARDS A NATIONAL CULTURE POLICY

TOWARDS A NATIONALCULTURE POLICY VIKRAM SAMPATH is a Bangalore-based Sahitya Akademi award winning author/historian, archivist, political commentator and a Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellow (ClassVI). He is part of several State & Central Government committees on policy matters related to art, culture, archiving and tourism. He is also the author of three acclaimed books of non-fiction: ‘Splendours […]

What’s love got to do with it? it’s Money, Fame and Power stupid

What’s love got to do with it? it’s Money, Fame and Power stupid When asked what advice she’d give to her 15-year-old self, the celebrated 83-year-old African American poet, Maya Angelou broached the subject of inspiration. “Find a beautiful piece of art,” she said. “If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or […]

It’s a Small World After All

“It’s a world of laughter, a world or tears, its a world of hopes, its a world of fear, theres so much that we share that its time we’re aware, its a small world after all.” Sherman Brothers, in the early 1960s, wrote this song for a Walt Disneyshow dedicated to the children of the […]