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February 10, 2020

Marley’s Redemption Song Just Got a Surreal Animation Makeover

Read Time: < 1 minute The video is the first in the series to mark the musical legend’s 75th birthday Universal studios, [ā€¦]
August 29, 2018

Watch The Incredible Journey Of a Boy Who Built Himself A Bicycle From Scrap

Read Time: < 1 minute From learning to ride on a hand-made bicycle, to becoming the four timeĀ Nepalese National Champion, 21-year-old, Rajesh [ā€¦]
August 29, 2018

Meet The Young Female Wrestlers Of Shamli, UP

Read Time: < 1 minute In the largely conservative society of western Uttar Pradesh, wrestling is a very popular sport among men. [ā€¦]
August 29, 2018

Watch This Satire on How Indians Worship the English Language

Read Time: < 1 minute Poet Ashwani Avi and UnErase Poetry have come up with a unique way to parody the love [ā€¦]
August 29, 2018

India Finally Has Its Version of Childish Gambino’s This Is America

Read Time: < 1 minute Childish Gambinoā€™s dark take on American culture in his now super-viral song, This Is America has inspired [ā€¦]
May 31, 2018

Watch: This Boy From Arunachal Rap About Racism

Read Time: < 1 minute Twenty-three-year-old, Kekho Thianmkho who is usually known by stage name K4 Kheko went viral recently for his [ā€¦]
May 10, 2018

Watch The Short Film: Inside a Lost African Tribe Still Living in India Today

Read Time: < 1 minute Asha Stuart, an African American film-maker met a Sidi man in Bangalore, which led her to explore [ā€¦]
April 16, 2018

This Afghan Girl Rapped Herself Out Of Being Sold As A Child Bride

Read Time: 2 minutes When she heard of her family’s plans to sell her, she protested with a rap song that [ā€¦]
March 28, 2018

Watch This Comic Artist Explain The Internet As It Is Today

Read Time: < 1 minute If the world is a strange place, the internet is weirder.Ā East India company’s Sahil Shah explains all [ā€¦]
March 1, 2018

Holi Essential: Vrindavan

Read Time: < 1 minute Scores of people travel to Vrindavan, Mathura, to celebrate the Hindu festival of colours, Holi. This year [ā€¦]
February 27, 2018

Watch The Video Of Pharrellā€™s New Adidas Collections Inspired by Holi

Read Time: < 1 minute The three new collections slated to release this spring are all inspired by the festival of colour [ā€¦]
February 24, 2018

Bharatanatyam In The Wild

Read Time: < 1 minute These women are trying to reclaim public spaces, one dance at a time Classical dances are usually [ā€¦]
February 13, 2018

A Hip-Hop Video Urging Indians To Stop Hating Mughals

Read Time: < 1 minute The music video which was made by students and some faculty members for an elective course at [ā€¦]
February 1, 2018

A Hip-Hop Video Urging Indians To Stop Hating Mughals

Read Time: < 1 minute The music video which was made by students and some faculty members for an elective course at [ā€¦]
January 27, 2018

This Music Video Combats Skin Colour Discrimination

Read Time: 2 minutes The video, White Karidey, is a humorous take on the obsession with fairness in society According to [ā€¦]
January 25, 2018

Why You Should Read Virginia Woolf

Read Time: < 1 minute On her 136th birthday, watch Iseult Gillespie explains how to best understand the novelist How best can [ā€¦]
October 29, 2017

Watch The March For Gorkhaland

Read Time: < 1 minute This is the second in a series of short documentaries under #HumLeKeRahenge.Ā Watch how in the wake of [ā€¦]
October 14, 2017

Watch the Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Agitation

Read Time: < 1 minute First in a series of short documentaries underĀ #HumLeKeRahengeĀ by Kahaani Wale, the documentary takes you to theĀ 100 farmers [ā€¦]
October 12, 2017

This Film on Gauri Lankesh Is A Must Watch

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr recommendsĀ Our Gauri,Ā a film on the slain journalist that will help you understand her politics and why [ā€¦]
September 8, 2017

India In A Day

Read Time: < 1 minute Watch the country’s first crowd-sourced documentary In october 2015, Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap and Google asked Indians [ā€¦]
August 11, 2017

Revisiting Topi, the poignant film on partition

Read Time: 2 minutes There is a certain timelessness to this animated story of a young boy waiting to board a [ā€¦]
July 31, 2017

You Have to See Charli XCXā€™s Boys Video

Read Time: < 1 minute This crush-anthem has a video that subverts the male-gaze deliberately and we love it, writes Neha Pant [ā€¦]
July 26, 2017

Kakkoos, A Documentary on Manual Scavenging Is A Must Watch

Read Time: < 1 minute The Tamil documentary captures the societyā€™s apathy towards those who clean public toilets and sewers, writes Neha [ā€¦]
July 4, 2017

Iranian Art Exhibition Of Anti Trump Cartoons

Read Time: < 1 minute The exhibition was the result of a competition that had submissions from all over the world, writes [ā€¦]
June 10, 2017

Bollywood Off Screen

Read Time: 7 minutes sbcltr spoke to photographer Mark Bennington about his one-of-a-kind photo book, Living the Dream Who are the [ā€¦]
May 17, 2017

Love Story of A Gaurakshak

Read Time: < 1 minute Hear Ankit Chadha tell a story about what it really means to be a Gaurakshak During his [ā€¦]
May 12, 2017

JNU Student Raps In Protest Of VC

Read Time: < 1 minute Rahul Rajkhowa is protesting against the 80 per cent seat cut in M.Phil and PhD admissions Jawaharlal [ā€¦]
April 25, 2017

The Man Who Photographs Death

Read Time: 2 minutes The Sleeping Beauty project is a collaboration between an Italian photographer and an Indian who photographs dead [ā€¦]
April 9, 2017

Postcards from Peshawar, Pakistan

Read Time: 2 minutes Mithila Mehta, in collaboration with, Humans of Peshawar, gives you a rarefied glimpse into the everyday life [ā€¦]
March 25, 2017

Unreserved: A Documentary on Indians who Travel

Read Time: 3 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to filmmaker Samarth Mahajan, who travelled for 17 days, across 12,000 kilometre to record [ā€¦]
March 11, 2017

An Illustrated Guide To UAPA

Read Time: < 1 minute Prof G.N. Saibaba’s conviction has raised questions against the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (1967). Watch this 8 [ā€¦]
February 28, 2017

The Sbcltr Mixtape of New Music Volume 5

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the Indie music you should be listening to right now The first two months of [ā€¦]
February 21, 2017

#BadBeti In Drag

Read Time: 3 minutes Non- binary Indian drag performer, Abhijeet, used the popular hashtag to recreate pictures of women icons in [ā€¦]
February 20, 2017

Kurt Cobain: 50 years on

Read Time: 3 minutes What would the legendary grunge rocker be like if he was still alive? And why are we [ā€¦]
February 14, 2017

Evolution of Love

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltrā€™s curated guide to the powerful interpretations of the emotion in art What is Love? This is [ā€¦]
February 14, 2017

Grammys 2017

Read Time: 2 minutes The biggest night of music was in tandem with the biggest trend of the year–resistance. The 59th [ā€¦]
February 8, 2017

The Handmaidā€™s Tale: Vintage Atwood Revival

Read Time: < 1 minute The video summary of the classic that is enjoying a recent rise in sales Two days ago, [ā€¦]
February 6, 2017

Saudi Arabian Women Take On Patriarchy

Read Time: < 1 minute Watch this hyper cool music video in which burqa clad women roller blade, drive bump cars, all [ā€¦]
February 1, 2017

Hipstory: World Leaders Reimagined

Read Time: < 1 minute Illustrator Amit Shimoni reimagines some of the world leaders as hipsters, accompanied by biographies written by Stephen [ā€¦]
February 1, 2017

Stellar Frequencies

Read Time: < 1 minute Mixed media artist, Daniel Sun, opens his show Stellar Frequencies in Goa this week, sbcltr gives you [ā€¦]
January 24, 2017

Best of The World Press Photo Exhibition

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr brings you some of the most expressive award winning images from the travelling photo exhibition Every [ā€¦]
January 23, 2017

The First Gorillaz Song in Five Years

Read Time: < 1 minute The virtual band’s new song is calledĀ Hallelujah MoneyĀ andĀ features Benjamin Clementine A blur reunion, teasers and even a [ā€¦]
January 22, 2017

Why I Marched For Women

Read Time: < 1 minute Richa Sharma’s visual dispatch from the Women’s March in Washington DC On Saturday, 21st January, I marched [ā€¦]
January 10, 2017

Recreating Ravi Varmaā€™s Portraits

Read Time: < 1 minute Rohit Chawla recreates some classic Indian Art in this stunning photo series One of Indiaā€™s leading contemporary [ā€¦]
January 6, 2017

Om Puri Essential Movies

Read Time: 2 minutes The sbcltr list of Om Puri movies that you cannot miss When veteran actor Om Puri died [ā€¦]
January 2, 2017

The 2017 Music to Look Forward

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr lists down the albums to start your year with Although music is something that transcends time, [ā€¦]
December 27, 2016

Kabul’s Female Graffitti Master on Arts

Read Time: < 1 minute An Afghan graffiti artist is boldly taking to the streets with a spray can and hope for [ā€¦]
December 26, 2016

George Michael

Read Time: < 1 minute More than just a musician, he was a phenomenonā€”all heart, rebellious, pushing his limits and brazenly being [ā€¦]
December 22, 2016

Procrastination: A photo essay

Read Time: < 1 minute Photographer Polly Brown tackles the ideas of wasting time before a deadline We have all been guilty [ā€¦]
December 19, 2016

Music Trends 2016

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr lists down the things that happened in popular music this year that changed the industry We [ā€¦]
December 16, 2016

The Reality of Demonetisation

Read Time: 3 minutes Documentary filmmaker, Nakul Singh Sawhney, travelled to Uttar Pradesh to film demonetisation and its impactĀ on rural life. [ā€¦]
December 5, 2016

Nanok Vs Banks

Read Time: < 1 minute The video of the new Nanok song borrows from Banksā€™s video on self-love Monica Dogra and Anushka [ā€¦]
December 1, 2016

Charles Bukowski in Animation

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr recommends three poemsĀ and their animated interpretations Charles Bukowskiā€™s words resonate with many who live dissolute lifestyles [ā€¦]
November 30, 2016

You Filthy Rat Bag

Read Time: < 1 minute This 16-year-old artist is making fun of everyday life in brutal illustrations that tell the truth about [ā€¦]
November 28, 2016

Delhi Pride Parade In Pictures

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr brings you some of the best moments from the event Rainbow colours, a lot of energy [ā€¦]
November 24, 2016

Shanghai Like Youā€™ve Never Seen Before

Read Time: < 1 minute Media artist, JT Singh, takes you on an intimate visual journey of the city and its locals [ā€¦]
November 23, 2016

Inside The Coal Mines of Jharia

Read Time: < 1 minute Photographer Ronny Sen captures a world of underground fires and blasting mines in the dystopian photo series, [ā€¦]
November 21, 2016

India’s First Lesbian Web Series

Read Time: 2 minutes As the country celebrates Pride month, sbcltr recommends watching this first of its kind,Ā same-sex web-seriesĀ that is making [ā€¦]
November 20, 2016

Demonetization and The Common Man

Read Time: 2 minutes Watch this documentary series on the impactĀ of money ban Itā€™s been twelve days since the Modi government [ā€¦]
November 18, 2016

Hardwired To Self-Destruct

Read Time: < 1 minute Metallica goes back to its roots with Hardwired. It’s been eight long years since the disappointing Death [ā€¦]
November 2, 2016

Before The Flood

Read Time: < 1 minute Before the Flood is Leonardo DiCaprioā€™s new environmental documentary. Leonardo DiCaprio – the environmentalist and Oscar winning [ā€¦]
October 31, 2016

Halloween Playlist

Read Time: < 1 minute The sbcltr Halloween Monday playlist has songs that are actually disturbing, weird and spooky. Trigger warning, listen [ā€¦]
October 26, 2016

Pussy Footing Around Punk

Read Time: 3 minutes Pussy Riot has never been about music and it shouldnā€™t be mixed with it either. Theyā€™re your [ā€¦]
October 21, 2016

Coen Brothers: Essential Movies

Read Time: 3 minutes The sbcltr movie list that will introduce you to the brilliant world of Coen brothers Get ready [ā€¦]
October 19, 2016

The Love Project

Read Time: < 1 minute Alice Sharma on one womanā€™s quest to find analog love in a digital world When the world [ā€¦]
October 17, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape Volume 4

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the indie music that should be on your playlist right now Itā€™s a great feeling [ā€¦]
October 15, 2016

The Peculiar World Of Tim Burton

Read Time: < 1 minute Take a look inside Tim Burtonā€™s new movie through a collection of vintage photographs by Leah Gallo [ā€¦]
September 28, 2016

Band Pick – Afterglow

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr speaks to the Jazz-Funk quartet that has released a tribute song dedicated to the life and [ā€¦]
September 12, 2016

No oneā€™s heard of Krautrock

Read Time: 7 minutes Dhananjai Sinha explains how the unknown subgenre is an alternative history of rock and roll music itself [ā€¦]
September 7, 2016

Listening Sessions Season 1

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr Listening Sessions is a platform designed to create an experience of intimate artĀ thatĀ bridges the gap between [ā€¦]
August 19, 2016

Photographs From Yesterday

Read Time: 2 minutes On world photography day, sbcltr reviews Ronny Sen’s latest series, Chronicles of an Old World ColourĀ  29-year-old [ā€¦]
August 9, 2016

Irom Sharmila Ends Fast to Remove AFSPA

Read Time: 3 minutes A sbcltr report on everything you need to know as her sixteen-year-old hunger strike comes to an [ā€¦]
June 21, 2016

Music Day Recommendations

Read Time: 5 minutes On world music day sbcltr lists down the best albums of 2016 It has been a gauntlet [ā€¦]
June 10, 2016

Drugs, Violence and Censorship: Punjab

Read Time: < 1 minute As the Udta Punjab censorship controversy continues to boil sbcltr recommends GLUT, a documentary that gives you [ā€¦]
May 29, 2016

School of Rock: Dharavi Edition

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr meets Abhijit Jejurikar, the man who brought music to Indiaā€™s biggest slum As we walk across [ā€¦]
May 19, 2016

Anatomy of a Riot

Read Time: 5 minutes As the Judicial CommissionĀ set up for the Muzaffarnagar riots absolvesĀ majoritarian HindutvaĀ and political leadership of communal violence, sbcltr [ā€¦]
May 14, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape: Volume 03

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the music you should be listening to right now We donā€™t like summer. It is [ā€¦]
April 10, 2016

Art that Liberates

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr speaks to Nimisha Bhanot. The artist behind the Badass Indian Pinups series Cheeky pictures that show [ā€¦]
April 3, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape: Volume 02

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the best of music out this month In the last month we discovered many things, [ā€¦]
February 17, 2016

We are JNU – Protest Song 2016

Read Time: < 1 minute This song is written and composed by Sylvie who is a student in JNU, from Germany. It [ā€¦]
February 17, 2016

Dog without a bone

Read Time: < 1 minute   ā€˜Dog without a boneā€™ is the stage and recording name of singer-songwriter, Nihar Manwatkar. Currently based [ā€¦]
January 11, 2016

Control Alt Delete 9.0

Read Time: < 1 minute