The best of Chicago for free. Sign up for our email to enjoy Chicago without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush). Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your ...

A faded umbrella hangs from the ceiling of the Smart Museum of Art, where an exhibition devoted to the Sahmat Collective has taken over the main galleries. “Let Us Defend Our Secular Tradition,” spell ...

As the nation celebrates the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Indian Constitution, over 50 artists from across the country have come together at Jawahar Bhawan, to articulate their views ...

NEW DELHI: Sahmat, a socio-cultural organisation, will organise a convention in the Capital to create awareness and forge a consensus against what they call government's "efforts to communalise ...

Left wing cultural organisation Sahmat on Monday invited Salman Rushdie to speak from its platform in the capital on any date convenient to him. Left wing cultural organisation Sahmat on Monday ...

A carpet of wax lotuses in warm tones present a pretty sight in Shailesh B.R.’s interactive installation Melting Lotus. But there is more to them than meets the eye. In a cheeky aside, the artist has ...

Art in India has been an effective tool of social change for the last two decades engaging with issues, problems and politics in the society. HT Image A new book, "The SAHMAT Collective", co-edited by ...

‘Moments in Collapse’, an exhibition by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) at Jawahar Bhawan, is a deeply political testament to the fast-changing democratic landscape of India. Curated by Gigi ...

THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (300 City Centre), to October 19. 905-896-5088. Rating: NNNN Organized by the University of Chicago’s ...

The recent Sahmat publication 'Debating Education' is a critique of the draft National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 and argues forcefully against its approval. The recent Sahmat publication ...

As the government continues to push its celebrations of India’s 75th year of independence as “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, or Sahmat collective, has organised an ...

New Delhi, August 29 (PTI) A plate, a knife and blood spilled on it; a person wearing a cow mask carrying placard that read “misused, abused and used”, these and many such posters screamed for ...