Photo Essay
WORKING CLASS SUPERHEROES Vikas Maurya The gaze of the juveniles into the camera, their awareness of being photographed exudes a confidence that can be drawn parallel to professional paid gazes erasing divisions of the rich and poor.
A LETTER FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
The Business man, the Scholar , and the Hermit A Letter to Young Artists Waswo X. Waswo If you choose to eschew money and politics, if you devote yourself single-mindedly to your art, then, unless you were born independently wealthy,…
Art & Theatre
Street Censorship Shardul Bhardwaj The debate does not continue because nothing else of this nature has happened again. I am very curious to see what will happen once we open our play which is about a gay love story in…
Book Review
Under The Skin Lina Vincent Sunish “To Mumbai: my home, my muse… “ is the dedication, and Husain begins his essay with an all encompassing comment that explains the book, “When one talks about a journey, one usually refers to…
Contributors
Dinesh Khemani is an Editorial Assistant & Copy Editor with Art & Deal magazine. Waswo . X. Waswo is an artist and collector based in Udaipur. H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Art critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Partshath….
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