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Rover in the driftless area of the outcastes. Writing is a way of deleting.
Dressing up your male bias: My open letter to Sabyasachi Mukherjee for the sake of all women
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.
The dead bitterness of litchis: Encephalitis, 'expiries' and my memories of a hospital ward
Five years later, the story remains the same in Muzaffarpur: the song of beeping monitors, the unblinking eyes of children and their frothing mouths.
From eating joothan to foraging for morsels: 'My ironic cookbooks remind us how food is caught tightly in the web of caste'
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.
Goodbye, Queen Harish: The famed drag performer was truly Queen of the scene
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.
Wherein lies continue: An antidote to emptiness via canvases full of memories
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.
Amol Palekar Interrupted: Why this should be a moment for the art world to introspect, rather than play blame games
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 old woman who sings of hope, and lives like a free bird
An encounter with an abandoned old woman who has found peace in herself and in a building full of outcastes.
A requiem for a dream: A former auto driver embroiders what he saw of life from his rearview mirror
Bapi Das is exhibiting his work at the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Indian Art Fair: To the moon and back
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 Fair.
