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Badri Narayan: Weaving Fantasy, Mythology, and Banal Reality

Surrounded by the rich symbols in the South-Indian town of Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Badri Narayan was born on 22 July 1929. In his lengthy 45-year career, he has worked intensely as an artist, illustrator, teacher, and author.  Hyderabad Art Society organised Narayan’s first public show held at the All India Art Exhibition in 1949. They

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Kate Capshaw: From Actress to Painter Extraordinaire with “Unaccompanied” Exhibition

As a talented painter as well as a well-known actress, Kathleen Sue Spielberg, is better known by her stage name Kate Capshaw. born on November 3, 1953, Capshaw is most recognised for her performance as Willie Scott in her husband Steven Spielberg’s 1984 film “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. Her painting career and

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Horses Swim; Horses Fly; BoJack Horseman Looks on By

“Knick knack, paddy whack, Give a dog a bone”, which undoubtedly it will lose. The themes of trauma, longing, detachment, and narcissism are bluntly inserted into the popular Netflix adult-animation show BoJack Horseman. These notions are made abundantly clear not only through dialogues and animation but also via artwork plastered across the various settings of

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Baring It All: Brutalist Architecture in India

What is Brutalist Architecture? Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that first became prominent in the United Kingdom after World War II. As the name suggests, brutalist architecture aims at celebrating and exposing the “brutal” truth of the buildings. It was a significant part of the modernist movement. This style of architecture preferred the ethics

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Indian Art Forms as Soft Power: How Indian Art Forms Contribute to India’s Influence Abroad.

What is Soft Power? In its fundamental essence, ‘power’ encapsulates the capacity to effect change and exert influence over others, persuading them to act in ways they might not have independently chosen. These insights are drawn from the scholarly work of Joseph Nye, a political activist in the 1980s, at Harvard University, who delved into

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