India’s Politics, Painted

The gallery as mirror: Sakshi Gallery’s 40th anniversary show, ‘Of Being and Becoming’ at Delhi’s Travancore Palace, is not a greatest-hits parade. Cu...

Unpurifying Hindi

Decolonising Means Embracing Many Voices: On Hindi Diwas, we ask not merely how Hindi became a modern language, but how we came to imagine what "Hindi...

The Ho History They Didn't Teach You

Umar Khalid's Ho Tribes And The Colonial Playbook- From news television that paints him as a Deshdrohi, Umar Khalid emerges in a book review as an ...

Headline and Footnote

Pankaj’s ‘My Lady in Black’ Is About The Cost of Being Cleared- “It was very difficult. Once you are accused, it is headline material while acquit...

Where A Foot-Scrubber Is Art

At Sanskriti, OP Jain Makes Everyday India Extraordinary. Entering the newly opened Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art & Indian Textiles inside Humay...

The God Who Became A Metaphor

How did Jagannath built English's juggernaut?

Beyond The Yak Poster 

Why Delhi's Spirit of Tibet festival is geopolitical? The poster is deceptively colourful. A cubist Potala, a block-colour yak, a folk mask and a dram...

Crackdown on 558 UP Madrasas

The Uttar Pradesh government has launched a comprehensive probe following complaints of large-scale financial and administrative irregularities across...

Memory As Monument

"My days do not get over, my nights do not end, my memories refuse to step back or fade away." Sabyasachi Mukherjee opens his new flagship near Qutub...