Indian art

The Good Orientalists

Zareer Masani

India would be a poorer place without the work of British archaeologists

BN Goswamy: ‘One feels as though he was con versing with gods’

Ritika Kochhar

The renowned art historian BN Goswamy in his new book brings to life the controversial 18th century artist Manaku

Bonsai Gone Wild

Rosalyn D’Mello

Curatorial noise overwhelms this ambitious exhibition spanning more than eight decades of creative renderings

The Mahabalipuram rock reliefs and sculptures are extraordinary creations by the third monarch of the Pallava dynasty, and in these masterpieces merge the sensuous and the satirical, the human and the divine in timeless harmony

Tasneem Zakaria Mehta: The Revivalist

Payal Khandelwal

How Tasneem Zakaria Mehta transformed Mumbai’s Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum into one of the country’s most buzzy and contemporary spaces for Indian art

Resisting the Brush Off

Ashlesha Athavale

Incensed by the media’s indifference to Indian art, Satish Naik began publishing his own magazine, one whose articles are often seen as works of art in themselves