The Expanse of Imagination: Lionel Wendt’s Surreal Photographs
We often think of contemporary art as more abstract and complex than traditional art. Modern art is typically understood as a “break with tradition” –a new and different way
Poet Whom Nobody Discovered: Srinivas Rayaprol’s Poems on Ordinary Life
Dom Moraes once wrote a moving tribute to a relatively unknown poet, and countless others like him, aptly titled ‘Poet Whom No One Discovered’. He was talking about the quiet,
“Groping through a giant haystack”: Dom Moraes’ Musings on Writing about People
Dom Moraes is widely known as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. He was an editor, essayist, scriptwriter and journalist apart from being an extraordinary poet –
Nadir Al-Asr: Ustad Mansur’s Miniatures of Birds and Tulips
Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth-century Mughal painter renowned for his depictions of flora and fauna. His works on birds in particular are highly detailed, and proved to be a great
‘Kunwari’: Amrita Pritam on the Universal Female Experience
Reading Amrita Pritam today is a rare delight; at a time when women who express desire are killed in the name of honour, and men are murdered for loving across religions, to think
An Eye-Witness Account of Disaster : Chittaprosad’s ‘Hungry Bengal’
The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was the greatest man-made disaster, wrecking over three million lives across India and leaving widespread poverty, disease and displacement in its wake