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Kartik Sundar·

This Week inCulture

#2: Tales of Three Cities – Food and Bar Culture, Koo Coups Twitter

A Delhiite, a Bangalorean and a Calcuttan walk into a bar. In the second episode of This Week inCulture, we... Read More

Atri Mukherjee·

Remembering the Dusty Halls of Bally Sadharan Granthagar

There was an air of silence and magnanimity that the building took onto itself as the people descended a narrow slope to get through its small front door with a green grill, where the noise of the city would be detained before it. Read More

Of Interruptions and Distinctions – Hotel Alka Classic

Hotel Alka Classic is different from everything and everywhere. And in writing about this singular anomaly, I have put myself in the unpleasant position of describing and distinguishing its timelessness. Read More

Ranjini Ghosh·

Stepping into the Sunlight – A Bar, A Friend, A Family

Until I set foot in sunlight, the notion that a sketchy neon lit bar could hold any sort of sentimentality within seemed incredulous Read More

The inCulture Room

The inCulture Room Episode 2 – Arjun Sagar Gupta

Any music aficionado who has been to Delhi will tell you about The Piano Man Jazz Club. From emerging local... Read More

Anant Shah- Founder

Anant Shah (just as his Instagram bio says) has always been interested in connecting people though their different cultures. He is drawn to this goal, given his background of a family of artists, as well as his work at several different organisations such as the People Tree with Orijit Sen, The Conflictorium in Ahmedabad and The UN (AIDS) Communications and Global Advocacy Team in Geneva. As a graduate of History and International relations at Ashoka University, he co-founded and set up the Ashoka Literature festival in 2019. Longing to increase this critical discourse on contemporary and traditional Indian Cultures he finally decided to start InCulture.

Kartik Sundar- Founder

Kartik Sundar loves nothing more than opining on cultural content. An avid writer for many publications, the decision to start one of his own came from recognizing a substantive lack of critical discourse around Indian culture today. He graduated Ashoka University with a degree in History & International Relations and wishes to complete further education with a focus on media and cultural studies.

We at inCulture are looking to shed light on what we see as an emerging new Indian culture as well as paying dues to the traditions that have been integral in shaping the current space. We want to try and create a space where critical reflection on cultural events, individuals, works of art, or practices can be fostered. Rather than exist as a cultural news outlet that merely serves as a bulletin board for the latest releases, inCulture will look to curate multi-medium pieces that seek to inform readers about aspects of our culture that make you think beyond an immediate reaction. In particular, we strive to look critically at Indian culture by investigating it under four distinct categories – film & theatre, music, spaces, and society.