Rediscovering Jyoti Bhatt, the chronicler of living traditions

When beauty goes under the hammer

A recent storm raised in a teacup points to contemporary India’s uneasy relationship with a culture of reviewing

The photographer Steve McCurry is on trial for digital manipulation. He is in good company

Avinash Chandra’s work is riveting, often for its shocking amorality

Ebrahim Alkazi’s lifelong project was to burst the seemingly exclusive bubble in which the appreciation of art and theatre appeared to take place

Although Nasreen Mohamedi lost most of her motor functions, she did manage to retain control over her right hand. Her last work remains ethereal, meticulous but also filled with palpable gravitas

Satish Gujral’s work casts a spell on viewers with its transformative power. While he infuses humanity and warmth into the images of his subjects, his self-portraits are more brutal, depicting a range of emotions by deft modulation of tones and textures

Indian artists may not have set hearts aflutter but those from Pakistan and Nepal added spice to the local flavours

The carefully postured bodies in the paintings of Francisco Goya, or the ones reduced to an abstraction in the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, transform into bizarre entities in a fascinating exhibition that examines notions of health and healing in India