IN SCHOOL, I REMEMBER IT WAS KABIR who was the easiest among the poets that lived inside our Hindi textbook. There was this directness, this familiar angst in his words that spoke to us like truths spoken by the class back-bencher. Because the backbencher knew stuff. The backbencher saw stuff that even teachers didn’t.

Delhi based artist Dhara Mehrotra’s solo art installation 'Through Clusters & Networks... is the product of the Artist-in-Residence outreach program at NCBS-TIFR, and offers a closer look at how fungi and plants communicate with each other via a “Wood Wide Web” National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS) encourages collaboration at every level and the artist-in-residence outreach program was also in alignment with varying expressions of science. The program brings on board artists who work closely with ‘Principal Investigators’ and their labs to translate the science into art. 

Storytelling, at its root, is a monologue of a person; a stage in their life or an event becomes an inspiration and leads to...

Witness the creation of India’s most decorative elephant at Rajaji National Park. Painted by international artists Senkoe and Valentina Pinci this mural was made at one of the most challenging spot, a lone wall on a hill!

Here are 5 new artists who are making people fall in love with their artworks. Their artworks stand out for their unique vision, idea, and technique. 

There is no place in India that epitomises tragedy better than Awadh. On the map it is a largish region roughly the size of Portugal that contains Lucknow and Ayodhya. Many wouldn’t know this but the name ‘Awadh’ or ‘Oudh’ as the British referred to it is a corruption of Ayodhya which on its own means ‘not to be messed with’.

Millennial-age Indians are embracing religious and spiritual tattoos, with this unique form of expression increasingly being recognized as ‘wearable body art’ across India’s busiest cities. The artistic value of tattoos has waxed and waned throughout history until reaching its current status as walking art. In India, tattoos were used for diverse reasons – including art, the imitation of embroidery, and to ward off evil. 

Oil paints are sticky; they get everywhere; they don’t come off our brushes easily; not to mention one wrong move in the wet painting will ruin hours and hours of hard work.

by P Abigail Sadhana Rao Some art forms survive trends. Others survive generations.  Indian folk art has done both.  Long before the contemporary art market began...

Rajasthan, the land of valour is full of tales of heroism, bravery and courage. These stories are passed on from one generation to another by different means. Various folk paintings across India are a perfect example of our cultural diversity and skilled craftsmanship. Phad paintings are the tradition of painting stories of local deities and hero. The most popular traditions remain that of Devnarayan and Pabuji ki Phad, both local hero-deities from Rajasthan. Painted on huge horizontal cloth scroll using natural colours, Phad traditionally served as a mobile shrine for singer-priests known as Bhopas.