Watch | Raagam roulette with Alexander Babu
The Hindu
The Hindu decided to play a musical game with popular comedian Alexander Babu
Alexander Babu is a popular stand-up comedian in Chennai. A former software engineer, he wears multiple hats: yoga teacher, musician, theatre artiste and motivational speaker. His first solo show 'Alex in Wonderland' combined humour and music and was a superhit, running for over 100 shows. The Hindu decided to play a musical game with him. We gave him three Carnatic ragas and asked his interpretation of them with examples of film song.
The ongoing Print Biennale Exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, unfolds as a journey far beyond India’s borders, tracing artistic lineages shaped by revolution and resistance across Latin America and nNorthern Africa. Presented as a collateral event of the Third Print Biennale of India, the exhibition features a selection from the Boti Llanes family collection, initiated by Dr Llilian Llanes, recipient of Cuba’s National Award for Cultural Research, and curated in India by her daughter, Liliam Mariana Boti Llanes. Bringing together the works of 48 printmaking artists from regions including Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, the exhibition is rooted in the socio-political upheavals of the 1980s and 1990s. It shows printmaking as both a political and creative tool, with works that weave stories across countries and continents.












