Siddharth Sivakumar
| Siddharth Sivakumar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kerala, India |
| Education | Visva Bharati University |
| Occupation | Writer, Editor-in-Chief |
| Family | R. Siva Kumar |
| Website | http://tinpahar.com/ |
Siddharth Sivakumar is an independent cultural journalist and writer. He is the founding editor and present editor-in-chief of the bilingual online cultural magazine Tinpahar.
Siddharh Sivakumar is the son of art historian R. Siva Kumar and Mini Sivakumar. He hails from a family of filmmakers that include Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Padmarajan.
Siddharth regularly writes for art blogs, art magazines such as Art and Deal, online cultural websites such as YouthKiAwaaz.com and Humanities Underground. His articles on socio-cultural issues have appeared in National dailies including The Hindu Business Line, The Statesman etc.
In 2012, Siddharth founded the cultural website Tinpahar. He believes,"presently the boundaries between academic disciplines are being redrawn. What were earlier discrete disciplines of literature, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology or art history are coming closer." And he claims in an interview, "Tinpahar aspires to fully erase this boundary, and become a ‘free and fertile’ space for constructive discourses on/in humanity.
In his articles he often pledges for a reconciliation between art and society. "Although there are more educated people than ever before, there are not many who visit museums or galleries. There is a disconnect between the common man and art today" he writes in The Hindu Business Line.
In 2013 he initiated Make My Website Initiative to support enthusiastic groups, who are seriously engaged in the creation or promotion of literature, visual arts or specialised studies to build their own websites for free. Websites of Gopi Shankar Madurai's Srishti Madurai and Humanities Underground are made under this scheme.
Following the Visva Bharati administration's decision to abolish the 50 percent Internal quota for Visva Bharati's two school Patha Bhavana and Siksha Satra in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, around 400 students blocked the entry to the central and vice-chancellor’s offices to protest. The protest has resulted in class and annual examination boycotts.
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