Photo Essay
Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me,…
Photo Essay
Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind…
Photo Essay
Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction
International
RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she…
Contributors
Aparna Roy Baliga teaches Art History at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Sushma Sabnis is a writer and artist based in Mumbai. H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Art critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Parishath University in Bangalore. Bhoo mika…
Cover Story
Contextualising the self in multiple traditions –a discussion on the paintings by Poushali Das Aparna Roy Baliga Poushali doesn’t only uses the traditional language but even the medium of tempera.She uses wash technique to get the subtleness required for her…
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Bringing a Macro World into Microcosmic Narratives Sushma Sabnis The breaking down of a system, blindly followed, led by an un-adaptable truth – a single truth or plural truths, depending upon the addressed issues, the choice of right versus wrong…
Feature
The prior substantiating the current: miniature Bhoomika Jain Anindita’s Bhattacharya’s works are a personal interpretation of a collective experience woven in and around the traditional consort of miniature paintings. Having lived and studied in Baroda and witnessing the perpetual communal…
International
FAYEZ BARAKAT : Private Passions Rajesh Punj Pressing an association with the fore-fathers of modern painting, French impressionist Claude Monet, American Mark Rothko, Spaniard Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others; Barakat recalls these leading…
Photo Essay
The Miniature as Photo Backdrop Waswo X. Waswo’s Painted backdrops have been essential to my work over the past six years. Generally painted on linen, but also at times on canvas, they are created by a large number of craftsmen…
Art For The Young
Ramachandran’s books for children: A Belated Homecoming Siddharth Sivakumar Speaking about the future of illustrated children’s books in India, some years back, Ramachandran had said, “To discuss the future of children’s picture books in the Indian context is like discussing…
Book Review
ART reinterprets ART Sudha Punshi I found this book a great inspiration for creating and motivating thought, especially on two fronts i.e. the contemporary art scene and the future for art as the author sees it. The chapter on Indian…
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Slaying multiple Goliaths Sushma Sabnis his life, simply to shroud someone else’s intolerance, pettiness and fear. They felt there was more dignity in living a lie than expressing a truth. They even threatened to banish and exile him like M…
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The Chinese Rajesh Punj Zheng’s Buddha in Cage, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, 1998, is more observation than animation, as a large marble statue of Buddha is photographed at the very edge of the precipice, against a thick curtain of fog….
