Sunday, October 4, 2026

What to Call a Woman Artist?

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There was a time in Indian art, especially between 2005 and 2013, when group exhibitions were cited as “ten Malayalis and two artists’ exhib...
Thursday, October 1, 2026

When an Exhibition Designer Turns a Vandal

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  Prima Kurien, that is not a good designer act... On Saturday, I went to Bikaner House and from there to Travancore House, where Bhuwal Pra...

Making of New Delhi- A Swapna Liddle History

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From now onwards, I will not be able to see ‘Pandara Road’ or ‘Pandara Park’ as they are. Historian Swapna Liddle, with her book Connaught P...

I am Warli by Sanjay Parhad

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  When Zahir Khan of Bikaner House Galleries sent me an invitation to attend the opening of Mein Warli Hun — “I am Warli” — by Sanjay Parhad...
Friday, September 25, 2026

In Search of Travancore’s Forgotten Craftsmen

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In the 1970s, during our visits to Palkulangara in Trivandrum, where many of our relatives lived, I used to spend a lot of time in one of my...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Contemporary Baroque and the Craft of Painting

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A work of art makes a camera out of a human. It makes him move closer, farther away and around it to get a better grasp of the form, theme a...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

‘Vision & Landscape: Aquatints of India’ by Thomas and William Daniell

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  Yesterday I visited ‘Vision & Landscape: Aquatints of India’ by Thomas and William Daniell, the uncle-and-nephew duo who travelled acr...