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Naomi Klein's 'Doppelganger' is a mirror to our world's absurdity

New Delhi, March 2 -- If you want a one-liner to put on a T-shirt that sums up the spirit of the times we are living in, I bet you can't find a better one than this droll sentence from the late Philip... Read More


In a new exhibition, photographer Gauri Gill brings the highway into the gallery

New Delhi, March 1 -- In 2020, the Union government introduced three farm laws which were perceived by millions of farmers around the country as being biased towards big business and detrimental to th... Read More


Book review: Zahid Rafiq's debut captures Kashmir's invisible trauma

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- The narrator of In Small Boxes, one of the 11 stories that make up Zahid Rafiq's debut collection, The World with its Mouth Open, is a young city reporter, employed with a newspa... Read More


'Cities: Built, Broken': A magnificent solo of Sudhir Patwardhan's recent work

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Sudhir Patwardhan, 76, points at a large 50x76 inch painting occupying the better part of a wall on the third floor of Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, where Cities: Built, Broken, ... Read More


Pankaj Mishra on Gaza, and the 'emotional bonding' between India and Israel

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Pankaj Mishra wrote his new book, The World After Gaza, in the aftermath of the attack on Israel by the Palestinian nationalist organisation Hamas on 7 October 2023. Since then, ... Read More


The unbeatable warmth of love letters

New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- More than two decades ago when she was in college in Nagpur, Kusum Rohra, now 44 and mother to a nine-year-old living in Bengaluru, wrote letters to her then boyfriend every day.... Read More


Netflix can't steal Gabriel Garcia Marquez's thunder

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- I finally bit the bullet and watched One Hundred Years of Solitude, which dropped on Netflix in December. Based on the Colombian master Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel, the se... Read More


Anuja Dasgupta: Merging art and nature through 'cameraless photography'

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Anuja Dasgupta, 28, was born in Patna, but has spent the last few years immersed in Ladakh, far from the madding crowd, perfecting an art form she calls "anthotypes". Leaves, flow... Read More


How to start building an art collection

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Indian art is having a moment. The Hurun India Art List of 2024 recorded staggering sales for the top 50 artists from the country at Rs.301 crore-a 19% increase from 2023. Even th... Read More


Why curators are the caregivers of the art world

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- In 2022, Delhi-based curator Adwait Singh was invited to curate the Mardin Biennale in Turkey in a location close to the Syrian border. In one of the 19th-century limestone build... Read More