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Life and Letters in the Mughal Empire

Janice Pariat

Mughal history is so much more interesting when seen through the art and literature patronised and inspired by the emperors

Leaving a Footprint

A stepchild of the art world, printmaking has lately been in the spotlight

How a Courier Boy became Director of the United Art Fair

Is Anurag Sharma’s dream venture a ‘me too’ flash in the pan or does he mean business?

The World according to a Cat Lover

The fate of both peasants and animals in Ramkinkar Baij’s art is a record of change in a post-industrial world

An Osian of Debt

Neville Tuli on the difficulty of raising Rs 10 lakh in cash while Osian’s had Rs 1,000 crore in assets, and the bad press that he gets

Never a Good Fight

Why are battles so one-sided in our visual representations of conflict? Why is there never a possibility that the outcome could be reversed?

Saving Afghan Treasures

In the midst of the Afghan war, Indians have been conserving pre-Islamic art, Buddhist monuments and Mughal gardens, even tracing links back to the Bronze Age.

Picture the Book

A catalogue of books or an art catalogue? It’s all the same when it comes to the one created by Seagull Books.

A New Mould

Mrinalini Mukherjee on how exhibitions allow her to view her own works in a new light and why there can be no retirement for an artist.

Two Lives, Two Realities

Time and space, and inner and outer worlds, come together in Rahab Allana’s diptychs.

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