At the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh recently, five women of the Sunda ethnicity – native to West Java – went on stage wearing peacock costumes with crests of large, stiff and spatula-like ...
After scoring a hat-trick of hits at the box office with Thudarum, Malayalam filmmaker Tharun Moorthy has announced the sequel to his debut film, Operation Java, a slick thriller on Kerala Police’s ...
A well-travelled motif, the Makara appears across Indonesia, Java, Cambodia, Nepal and Sri Lanka, especially as an architectural element. Over time, its talismanic properties have ensured that it ...