Chinki Sinha

Designer uses Miss Havisham, Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations' character, to say women who are overdressed and 'caked with makeup' are 'wounded' and 'bleeding inside'. That's bosh.

Five years later, the story remains the same in Muzaffarpur: the song of beeping monitors, the unblinking eyes of children and their frothing mouths.

Artist Rajyashri Goody talks about the politics of access and privilege surrounding food, in her cookbooks that are inspired by food mentioned in autobiographies by Dalit writers.

The stunning Rajasthani folk artist died in a road accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan. His is an extraordinary story, danced to the filmi rhythms of Bollywood and the unrelenting sounds of reality.

Sunil Padwal exhibited his solo work last month prior to the Art Fair. For him, objects, from an old radio to clothes hangers, evoke fleeting memories, emotions and worlds we once inhabited.

Everyone's busy blaming the curator of the NGMa for having interrupted Amol Palekar mid-speech. But here's why the curator did it. And also, here's what the art community should in fact be doing.

An encounter with an abandoned old woman who has found peace in herself and in a building full of outcastes.

Bapi Das is exhibiting his work at the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

From a cabinet of intimate memories to two moons and a lot of clouds in a photo booth, the works that deserve a look at the India Art Fai.

Kashmir has faced unspeakable crimes, and it would be a sin to forget them. The Srinagar Biennale pavilion in the Kochi Festival does the opposite. It remembers, laments and somehow, celebrates.

The art of female alter egos, and the fascination with existential identity, is not new. But as women increasingly assert themselves, it is now sensing a revolution in the winds.

Show, don’t tell. A simple advice the world of art can use too.

Artist Vibha Galhotra talks about her gender and her art before her upcoming show at the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi in January.

Inspired by farmers' protests, Olwe is working on a new project, 'Photographers for Famers'. While documenting shocking caste oppression or gender violence, Olwe is motivated by struggles against power and giving back to the community.

A rare Indian performative artist, Khurana uses her own body, lying in the street, trying to fly, paying tribute to icons of drag, to explore outer situations and inner realities. And to challenge them.

Overlooking the imposing architecture of Lutyen's Delhi and its underlying moral codes, the Drag scene in India is a story of hope and despair and a lot of courage.

It was about these sexual encounters where you didn't even get to see the face of the person, recounts Karthik Kalyanaraman, who is now a little less afraid of betrayal.

In his directorial debut, Dipesh Jain poses the question - are you a bystander?

Chola’s presentation of drag fashion is just another case of stereotyping.

You accept the limitation of words and language. You believe instead in the music of the sea farers.

Bihar’s Rajat Ghosh, whose works are part of NGMA, works on collecting stories on people who mattered to history.

At the recent Met Gala red carpet, she looked sizzling but utterly disappointing as she failed to take note of the theme.

How helpless are we in the face of such brutality, how powerless to even talk about the numerous assaults we have encountered.

I will remember more of that brief tryst now that this series of numbers has been tied to my identity. There's no escaping it.

I never wanted to know about her personal life, her wealth, her addictions, her surgeries. I loved her on screen.

Art expert and member of jury, India Today Art Awards lists why Manisha Baswani, Zarina Hasmi among others made the cut.

It would take centuries to tear us apart in ways that we don't grow together.

I am grateful that they remembered to inform me about his death.

I wrote this letter for him, but never sent it.

His Amazon India Fashion Week collection is all about the times we live in.