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Video: Meet Raja the King, India’s very own Elvis

The Pelvis of Kharagpur — Raja Danapat is India's self-proclaimed “twin brother” of Elvis. Now 75, he lives his life following the guiding light of the late Elvis Presley.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Richard Prince to Calcutta: The weird relationship between Instagram and the art gallery

A new exhibition and a new lawsuit — The first Instagram art show in Calcutta opened last week, and across the world Richard Prince was sued for photos he used at a show in New York. Increased access to images means more possibilities for art, but it's not necessarily for the better.

  • Culture

Nupur Joshi Thanks is waking up India to the indie publishing revolution

The Magazine Evangelist — Paper Planes Founder Nupur Joshi Thanks is reviving print by introducing India to the joys of boutique magazines.

  • Culture
  • Rob Boffard

How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India

Skating, educating and building community — Author, futurist and community activist Ulrike Reinhard founded Janwaar Castle to reinvigorate a rural village through skateboarding.

  • Skate
  • Alex King

How growing up in a Calcutta brothel gave photographer Avijit Halder a unique way of seeing the world

The Red Light Kid — Photography gave Avijit Halder a way out, but it was an unlikely friendship with Academy Award winner Zana Briski that set fire to his homegrown vision.

  • Culture
  • Avijit Halder

The artists turning acts of pollution into works of art

Ice, sewage and the Beijing smog creatively reimagined — Angered by the environmental chaos on their doorsteps, artists turn to their craft to vent their frustrations.

  • Art
  • Adam White

Meet Ishita Malaviya, India's first female surfer

Waves of change — Pioneering Indian surfer Ishita Malaviya is one in a billion. And now her childhood constraints are a thing of the past.

  • Surf
  • Jack Kenyon

Broken Fingaz’ psychedelic graffiti pilgrimage from Mumbai to Los Angeles

Journey Galactiko — Underground graffiti collective Broken Fingaz spring up in LA for a mesmerising show that takes on sex, death, Indian spirituality and capitalist advertising.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Scenes from inside Indian coffee houses, the greasy spoons of South Asia

Palaces of Memory — Photographer Stuart Freedman documents the decline Indian coffee houses – hotbeds of counterculture – in new book Palaces of Memory.

  • Photography
  • Michael Fordham

Photographer Paul Calver shoots 'Dogtown era' of Indian surfing

Surfing Swamis — A holiday to India became a trip back through time when English photographer Paul Calver stumbled upon a group of surfers giving birth to a brand new scene.

  • Surf
  • Paul Calver

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