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ARPANA CAUR SHARES SOME THOUGHT WITH KAINAAT FATIMA As Shakespeare said, “The world’s a stage, and we are all mere players”, my story too since its beginning substantiated changes of our turbulent times. A story that gave me the wisdom…

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Dear Readers, The concept of “one idea and many forms” comes from the folklore that talks about the manifestations and expressions of believers seeing one image of the Divine from multiple perspectives. Similarly, festivals too are seen from multiple discourses…

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‘Mahisasurmardini’: Myth, traditions and Art – Apurva Sinha “Tvam-Iishvarii Devi Caraa-Carasya “-.Narayani Stuti (of Devi Mahatmyam) ‘O Devi, You are the Goddess of all the Moving and Non-Moving Beings’ Incantation to the Devi, who is the mother of all; she…

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Elemental – An interview with Joana Vasconcelos – Rajesh Punj In his day Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung introduced the idea that “the creation of something new was not accomplished by our intellect, but by the play instinct acting…

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Dear Readers, June 2020 saw the end of an era with the passing away of Indian filmmaker and screenwriter Shri Basu Chatterjee, aged ninety. The warmth and slice-of-life humour his films exuded were unique in their connect with the audience,…

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The God of Small Things an interview with Lionel Esteve – Rajesh Punj There is a light-heartedness about Brussels based artist Lionel Estèvethat permeates his work as a lightness of touch. Seeing the things we leave to the litter as…

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Dear Readers, In spite of the COVID-19 outbreak, the year continues to move forward as the country leaps into Lockdown 4.0. We now adjust all our habits and ways of life in order to coexist with the virus, till we…

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TODAY, WE ARE living an event that has no parallels in living memory. You may say, it’s just a virus but look at how dramatically it has changed most—if not all—of our realities. The biggest being our ability to open…

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Dhaka ART Summit – Uma Prakash COVER STORY The fifth edition of Dhaka Art Summit featured the works of artists from forty-four countries around the world at the capital’s Shilpakala Academy. It showcased solo art exhibitions, public art projects, curated…

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Dear Readers, Awaiting the change of seasons, spring breaks in as we tackle a pandemic as a community. As panic sets in with the coronavirus spreading, for the first time in a while we have hit the pause button on…

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The Role of The Artist in Today’s hyper Art World: A Conversation with Samar Singh Jodha – Jyoti A. Kathpalia Recently I had the good fortune of being in the presence of Reverend Tensin Palmo founder of Dongyu Gatsal Ling…

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Art is a form of expression, a way to channelize the innermost, what is felt/ experienced/ perceived or even that which disturbs and communicate it to the viewer; it gives an artist the power to instantaneously convey a thousand words…

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THE NORTHEAST LENS: Art Practices from The borderland – Amrita Gupta Singh One can say that conventionally for Northeast India, there are two views which Mrinal Miri states: one from the ‘outside’ as a unitary entity; the other from the…

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ART of Ajit Seal: His Embodied Worlds – Upal Deb “I believe that art is a creative bridge between our imaginative vision and our inhabited experiences, both of which reconcile to recreate the primal human condition, and crystallize our current…

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Nothing speaks more loudly and persuasively than an art work. After the success of the first part of the special Issue on Northeast India and the authentic scholarly contributions by different authors, was indeed an eye opener about the visual…

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SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Amalgamation of Ecology and Art in ASSAM Abhilasha Pandey The desire to give a visual form to personal feelings, communal implication, economic circumstances, spiritual dogmas, aesthetic principles and established agendas were instigated thousands of years ago. Ever…

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WHO AM I? The question always crosses everyone’s mind. Searching for one’s identity, we endeavour to portray ourselves with fashion, religion, caste, community, but at the end we still cannot satisfy ourselves with any one definition of identity. Throughout our…

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A COMPARATIVE BEGINNING Of MODERNISM IN THE ART Of ASSAM: WIth focus on SobhA Brahma Rishav Gandhar Narzary Since the initiation and development of indigenous art historical studies in Indian modern art, mostly in the post-independence scenario, the ramification of…

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Aneesh Sankarankutty’s photographs of wild elephant’s garner Sankarankutty’s photographs of the elephant have won him acclaim. The Palakkad-based photographer has captured the animal in all its varied moods Aneesh Sankarankutty has waited for hours together to photograph an elephant that…

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Sujani Art from Bihar was awarded by UNESCO this year In a diverse country like India, embroidery has always been the expertise of women, both working and homemakers. For every important moment in a woman’s life like wedding, birth, and…

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Painted Almanac   framing time: past, present & future  Anindita Bhattacharya Desmond Lazaro Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Manisha Gera Baswani  Manjunath Kamath  Roshan Chabbria  Ruby Jhunjhunwala  TarshitoStrippoli V Ramesh  Curated by Tunty Chauhan Time and human relationships are crucial elements in the…

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"We often forget that We Are Nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves." – Andy Goldsworthy Delhi winters were a sight…

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The Line of Control in Conversation with Jogen Chowdhury – Rajesh Punj How does Jogen meditate on the surface of things, in a way that human skin, the skin of a vegetable and fruit, and the surface of a stone,…

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It is the season of festivals. Durga Puja, Dusshehra , Halloween and the anticipation of Diwali, our festival of Lights. These celebrations are sort of a declaration marking the beginning of winter; this time however, the bright sun shines on…

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Scrutinising A Past, For The Present Interview With Avinash Karn, Contemporary Artist – Lina Vincent Abroad survey of art practices today presents the idea that the only way folk art is legitimised is through a relative positioning with urban fine…

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Pratul Dash: An Artist-Conservationist Striving to Save the future – Ria Sarkar Hailing from the picturesque town of Burla in Western Odisha, Pratul Dash came to Delhi two decades ago and was caught up in the chaos of urban spaces…

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Climate change is real. We see it all around us manifest as floods with excessive (delayed) rains, unnatural weather conditions and damaging hurricanes. As we wait for a long summer to end, we wonder if threats of human extinction as…

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Re-Structuring Romanticism – No child’S Play IndIra Purkayastha ghosh’s neo romantic sculptures on contemporary childhood. Rahul Bhattacharya Contemporary India is witnessing its own tryst with modernity. Unlike in the colonial times or even in the decades post-independence, this version of…

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A studio of their own… IndIan Women Painters and their Spaces Jyoti A Kathpalia As one visits the museums looking with wonder at the masterpieces or searching the web for great painters, the question that comes to the fore is…

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With the onset of monsoon, we see a turnaround in the art space of the city, series of exhibitions at various art centres and galleries has started exhibiting.Amongst the many exhibitions that is happening in city, artist Indira Purkayastha Ghosh…

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EVERYDAY GODS G. RAVINDER REDDY INTERVIEW Rajesh Punj The sixteenth-century Italian soldier and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini asserted that ‘the art of sculpture was at least seven times greater than any other, (because) a statue of true sculpture ought to have…

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I welcome this issue on a happy and sombre note both, I express my deepest condolences to all the three great souls who departed recently, Girish Karnad, Jamil Naqsh, and Manoj Nair. Pleased to feature G. Ravinder Reddy yet again…

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Break Down – Rashid Rana Interview Pakistani artist Rashid Rana’s interdisciplinary approach covers a multitude of mediums, that include video, photography and painting. Employing the very undoing of the photographic medium as the pivotal point from which many of his…

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Few years back, I had gone to see an exhibition at Religare Art Gallery in Saket Delhi, off the artwork presented in the exhibition was of Rashid Rana’s huge digital work. Earlier, I was never fond of any digital work…