by Charu Thakur | Jun 9, 2023
(June 9, 2023) “Kept this a secret for a while now. I am honoured to say that I was chosen as an artist to be part of this historic project. My drawing of southern right whales was selected for the new South African 5 Rand coin. From numismatists, designers,...
by Charu Thakur | May 3, 2023
(May 3, 2023) It was year 1966. Still a student at the JJ School of Art, Nalini Malani had her first solo exhibition at Mumbai’s Pundole Art Gallery, sharing studio space with big names like VS Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta and MF Husain. In the subsequent years, she...
by Namrata Srivastava | Feb 14, 2023
(February 14, 2023) It was 1986 when Dr. Malini Ranganathan faced one of the most difficult challenges in her journey to teach Indian classical dance – Kathak – to young French girls. She had been living in France for over two years by then and was...
by Namrata Srivastava | Jan 25, 2023
(January 25, 2023) The stories of families displaced during the partition of India, while not new, are often unheard of and forgotten. For decades now, there has been a lack of visibility and representation – especially of those who migrated from East Bengal to...
by Vikram Sharma | Aug 5, 2022
(August 5, 2022) Growing up, Meghana was the kid who doodled in her notebooks while the classes would be going on. Creativity and art were what interested her the most. The only creative outlet she had at the time was the art class she had joined after school hours....
