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Revisiting the Erotic with Alka Pande’s Kama Quartet

Alka Pande’s Latest Collection, published with Speaking Tiger Books, is a testament to the rich history of Eroticism in the Indian sub-continent Alka Pande’s newly launched Kama Quartet is a bold and timely exploration of Indian erotic traditions, rooted in the philosophy and visual culture of the Kama Sutra. This four-volume series—Al Fresco Kama: Love […]

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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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