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Where Heritage Meets Modernity: The Design Journey of Swati Gupta

D-Talks, D-Talks, Interview /

Swati Gupta is the founder and principal designer of Bluedot Design, bringing over two decades of experience across interiors and furniture. Trained at APIED, Gujarat, she practices a minimalist, warm aesthetic focused on functionality, material honesty, and careful detailing. Her work balances global influences with Indian context, collaborating with artisans to create handcrafted pieces and […]

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Tracing Land, Memory, and Migration: Satyaranjan Das’ The Farmer’s Voice in Delhi

Exhibitions /

Satyaranjan Das’ latest presentation, The Farmer’s Voice, currently on view at Third Roast in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, brings into focus the shifting relationship between land, memory, and urban expansion. Running until 19 June, the exhibition unfolds within an intimate studio setting, inviting audiences to participate in the evolving work. Rooted in his upbringing in a village

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Performing the Goddess: Chapal Bhaduri Through Naveen Kishore’s Eye

Exhibitions /

An ongoing exhibition by Neekoee Foundation and 079 Stories brings renewed attention to one of Bengal’s most compelling theatrical legacies through a photographic series by Naveen Kishore. Titled Green Room of the Goddess: The Chapal Bhaduri Story, the show presents a portfolio of 17 photographs that document the life and performance of Chapal Bhaduri, once celebrated

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Striking Histories: Indian Matchbox Labels and the Making of a Visual Culture

Design /

Before matchboxes became museum items or collector’s memorabilia, they occupied a far more intimate role in everyday lives: wedged between cigarette boxes, resting beside kitchen burners, tucked away in shirt pockets, and passed from hand to hand in the quiet rhythm of mundane life. A major part of India’s visual art culture lies outside art

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Dr Alka Pande: Mapping India’s Visual and Cultural Imagination

Profile /

Dr Alka Pande is one of India’s most renowned art historians, and curators, with a practice that bridges scholarship, exhibition-making and public pedagogy. For over three decades, she has worked on Indian aesthetics, visual culture and gender, shaping how diverse audiences encounter the subcontinent’s artistic and cultural histories. Pande holds postgraduate degrees in History and

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Shared Epic Worlds at Sunder Nursery Explores Centuries of Indo-Iranian Exchange

Exhibitions /
Shared Epic Worlds

“Shared Epic Worlds: The Shahnameh, the Mahabharata, and the Indo-Persian Imagination,” currently on view at Sunder Nursery, is not simply an exhibition about two great epics. It is about movement—of stories, manuscripts, images, languages, and ideas across centuries of interaction between Iran and India. Against the backdrop of current geopolitical tensions, the Iran Culture House

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Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Mongolia

Architecture /
Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Inner Mongolia

Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed Prairie Ark, a public gallery on the shores of Lake Laoli in the Ulanchabu Steppes of Inner Mongolia, about 160 kilometres west of Beijing. The building reads like a flying saucer that has come to rest on the grasslands, lower and more horizontal than a conventional museum. Studio founder Ziyu

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