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Reflecting, constructing and forging ahead: Satyakam Saha’s Artistic Practice

Satyakam Saha’s recently concluded solo at Bikaner House brings together two decades of artistic practice, in his first solo show  While looking at an artwork we often do not see what went on behind the scenes to construct it. Constructs explored how ‘images and ideas are formed, dismantled and reassembled across mediums.’ Held at Bikaner

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In Going Far, You Experience Nearness: Junjaali by Sudip Roy

By Iftikar Ahmed At Bikaner House, New Delhi, Sudip Roy’s ongoing exhibition Junjaali, on view until 20 December 2025, unfolds as a quiet yet deeply affecting return. The exhibition is not framed as a retrospective, nor does it attempt to compress decades of practice into a summarising gesture. Instead, it brings together works created over

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Muffled Whispers of Some Other Time

Witnessing Imran Kokiloo’s ‘You Ran Away’  I. The Empty Room  You enter an empty room. White walls hold nothing but light and air. The city’s cacophony remains outside, muffled beyond the threshold. In this deliberate void, you wait—though for what, you don’t yet know. Then, gradually, as if emerging from beneath water, sounds surface. Voices.

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Unveiling the Psyche: Janeita Singh’s Jungian Analysis of F.N. Souza

Janeita Singh

Janeita Singh’s Jungian Analysis of F.N. Souza In this compelling critical study, literature scholar Janeita Singh offers a psychological excavation of F.N. Souza’s provocative artwork through a Jungian lens. The book navigates the complex terrain of one of the founding members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, whose unconventional depictions of female nudes amidst religious

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Ashok Vajpeyi’s New Book makes S.H Raza the Prophet of Harmony 

Ashok Vajpeyi and S.H.Raza looking at each other with love

Published with the Speaking Tiger Books in 2025, Celebration & Prayer illuminates us on the life of the Iconic Indian Artist What would be the opposite of communal? ‘Harmonal’. Not of bodies and biology, though it does not lack emotion either, but the one that is the practice of peace and sustainability.Sayed Haider Raza was not

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Raja Ravi Varma De-Constructed

Smriti Malhotra A Book Review of Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India by Rupika Chawla Published by Mappin Publishing in the year 2010 Rupika Chawla is an art conservator, a profession that requires the utmost patience and dedication to work with paintings covered in soot and dust accumulated over time. It takes ages to

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