India Research Task Resources
Arts
Resources
Modern Indian Art -We provide
objective and interesting analysis about the Indian Art Market and
Artists.
Vadehra Art Gallery
- For close to two decades now Vadehra Art Gallery (VAG) has
been promoting contemporary Indian art through exhibitions,
retrospectives and publications. Set up in 1987, we are today one
of the biggest art galleries in India both in terms of the shows we
organise and the artists we deal with.
Desivideos - has
bollywood reviews, trailers and even full movies online for
free!
Raghubir Singh - is
considered a pioneer of color photography. In the 1970s he was one
of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time
when color photography was still widely disconsidered. His
photographs, acclaimed for their organization of space, reflect the
multiple aspects of contemporary India.
Anand Sharan - made his presence felt
strongly in the world forum in the year 2006, when his work was
commended by the famous Saatchi Gallery in London. The Gallery
today exhibits the photographs of this great artist. Based in
Bangalore, Anand Sharan is one of the best-known fashion
photographers of India.
Films
Monsoon Wedding - A
stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event
planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about
the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
3 Idiots - has
become the highest-grossing Bollywood movie of all time in India.
It tells the story of are three engineering students who share a
room in a hostel at the Imperial College of Engineering, one of the
best colleges in India.
Rang De Basanti
- The story is about a British documentary filmmaker who is
determined to make a film on Indian freedom fighters based on diary
entries by her grandfather, a former officer of the British Army in
India.
Economic
Resources
Current TV - India is the world's second most populous nation,
and with a rate of economic growth several times that of the United
States, India seems on track to be a world power. But along with
the most billionaires in Asia, it also has more poor people than
the continent of Africa. Aided by an Indian movie star, Vanguard
producer Tracey Chang looks at the growing gulf between India's
rich and poor.
TED - Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing
pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine
whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
India Resource Centre
- India Resource Center
works to support movements against corporate globalization in
India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations
to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key
constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in
support of campaigns in India. India Resource Center is a project
of Global Resistance.
Unreported World links:
India: The Broken
People - India may have a booming economy with a
soaring stock exchange, and fast growing technology and services
sector, but Unreported World reveals a much more unpleasant sector
of this dynamic society.
India: Children of the
Inferno - Unreported World reveals a vision of
hell in North East India, where the earth is literally on fire as
vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and
villages, children mine coal day in day out, and half a million
people are being moved out of their ancestral villages to make way
for the coal mines fuelling India's growth.