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Time of India
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Hyderabad Metro strikes a chord with commuters as World Music Day fest begins; 250 artists, 7 stations, 4 days of music
Ameerpet metro station, one of the city's busiest transit points, transformed into a concert venue on Thursday as it hosted the launch of Metro Medley: World Music Day 2025. The event marked the start of a four-day musical celebration across Hyderabad's metro network, celebrating the themes of music, movement, and rhythm. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Organised by L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad in collaboration with Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad and Alliance Française, the festival will feature live performances at seven metro stations by over 250 musicians, culminating in a grand finale on June 24 at EXT, Film Nagar. The mood at Ameerpet was electric as commuters, tourists, students, and families gathered to enjoy the performances. 'Music in a metro connects people on the move,' said Amita Desai, executive director of the Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, drawing warm applause from the crowd. She further emphasised the festival's role in promoting connection and joy in daily lives. Desai and other guests highlighted the large number of participants— over 250 across Hyderabad—and praised the amount of talent in the city. The crowd was then treated to live performances, including a trumpet solo, a performance by singer-songwriter Priyanka Nath, and an interactive Djembe drum performance by Sai Kumar, where the audience enthusiastically joined in with handheld drums. Blending seamlessly with the commuter flow, the event allowed passersby to pause and participate, turning daily transit into a musical experience. With four days of performances in seven metro stations, the event aims to connect people through music.
The Hindu
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Hyderabad's Srishti art gallery unveils 15th edition of Emerging Palettes
In its 15th edition, Emerging Palettes returns to Srishti Art Gallery in collaboration with Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, presenting young contemporary artists who are pushing the boundaries of material and memory. Selected from over 300 entries, this year's 11 participating artists explore diverse mediums ranging from textiles and ceramics to steel, wood, and video installation. They craft textured narratives rooted in identity, belonging, and transformation. The final lineup — Aaryama Somayaji, Deepanwita Das, Farhin Afza, Hasan Ali Kadiwala, Manu N (Manushya), Moumita Basak, Nayanjyoti Barman, Nirmal Mondal, Pathik Sahoo, Vishnu CR, and Yogesh Hadiya — was chosen by a jury comprising Amit Kumar Jain, Varunika Saraf, Jaiveer Johal, and Lakshmi Nambiar, who also helms Srishti as founder and curator. This year's curatorial focus, Pushing Boundaries of Materiality, is compelling. The show highlights how artists are thinking beyond canvas and conventional form, and engaging with textiles, ceramics, steel, found objects, and video. From narratives in stitched installations to the reuse of discarded materials, each practice becomes a dialogue between form and idea, reminding viewers that the material can become a narrative force. For Nirmal Mondal, a graduate of Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, that narrative emerges from clay. Working in Santiniketan, he draws on the terracotta temples of Murshidabad and the dwindling craftspeople who once built them. 'My work is a way of conserving the stories I grew up with,' he says, adding, 'Ceramic holds memory better than paper.' Manu N (Manushya), who studied at the Bengaluru School of Visual Arts and Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, blends industrial and natural materials to explore the vulnerability and endurance carried in both Nature and the human body. In his stainless steel Inflorescence, floral structures form branching clusters and patterns. The artwork reflects his interest in botanical systems and the small-scale industry he runs. Meanwhile, his organic, coral-like forms stem from a desire to create works that 'symbolise the creation of life.' He explains, 'Salt and terracotta symbolise land and ocean. That duality reflects where we come from.' Farhin Afza, who received her MVA in Graphic Arts from University of Hyderabad in 2024, anchors her multimedia work in the rituals of Muslim domestic life. Her piece Dastarkhwaan reimagines the everyday dining spread as a political site. 'My work explores ideas of home, memory and identity,' she says. 'It is personal, at the same time political.' Incorporating everyday domestic objects, video, and textiles, Afza's work speaks softly but forcefully to belonging and marginality. Aaryama Somayaji, who holds a from National Institute of Design, Andhra Pradesh, and an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, creates dreamlike works rooted in folklore, oral traditions, and imagined memory. Her Heirloom Recipe Chart series is in acrylic wash and watercolour pencil on banana-fibre paper she made a decade ago. Her work is a 'maximalist approach to abstraction' and explores the language of recipes as cultural inheritance. 'They are sort of gestures or whispers that are told to you as recipes... add a little bit of this, a little bit of that,' she explains. A culmination of ingredients, approximations, and even gaps where history has erased memory or left space for future generations to fill in themselves. Other featured artists present equally potent material narratives. Deepanwita Das evokes botanical decay and emotional vulnerability through layered lithographs and stitching. Hasan Ali Kadiwala offers quiet, poetic etchings around displacement and spiritual longing. Moumita Basak uses recycled textiles and embroidery to reflect on gender and ecological justice. Nayanjyoti Barman builds fragile assemblages from plywood and wire to explore migration and memory in Northeast India. Pathik Sahoo works with iron, brass, and tin to reconstruct vanished rural festivals and communal rhythms. Vishnu CR transforms wood into large-scale sculptures inspired by carpentry traditions and childhood puzzles. Yogesh Hadiya layers satire and metaphor into dense woodcuts championing social critiques. (Emerging Palettes 15 is on view at Srishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, till July first week)
