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Installation view, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. Exhibition: “Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj”, from the Omar Khan Collection and the Alkazi Collection of Photography, August 19-October 1, 2018.

Reimagining the past: Inside India’s archive revolution

How India’s private foundations transform historical collections into interactive experiences, bridging past and present through technology.
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Dharavi, Mumbai, 2010.

Death at a discount

In Baburao Bagul’s collection of gut-wrenching stories, Mumbai’s graveyards, brothels, and slums form the backdrop to a theatre of desperate poverty.
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Souza at his apartment in New York, 1970-71.

Souza’s monsters mirror society’s ugly truths

A moving tribute to artist Francis Newton Souza in his birth centenary year.
Janhavi Acharekar
Rickshaws on the streets of Sadarghat on the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Inheritance of war

This remarkable debut collection takes an unflinching look at mental traumas that are both the reason and the consequence of violence.
Janhavi Acharekar
“Nadi Studies”, a multimedia interactive installation by TimeBlur, renders patterns of movement in yoga.

Can code save us? ‘this.generation’ explores the intersection of art, technology, and ecological solutions

Generative art meets earth-saving solutions in a Goa exhibition that pushes boundaries of creativity and sustainability.
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The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao is an unflinching look at Mumbai and its residents through a familiar narrative.

A gritty Ramayana with Mumbai as backdrop and baddie

In Lindsay Pereira’s The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao, there are multiple enemies, and no winners.
Janhavi Acharekar
Kyungwoo Chun

South Korean artist Kyungwoo Chun challenges perceptions through thought-provoking artwork

His latest solo exhibition, “Songs Without Lyrics”, is a unique blend of photography and performance art. 
Janhavi Acharekar
A photo depicting life in 19th century Bombay.

Shadow pictures: Review of ‘The Secret of More’ by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

With business and cinema at its core, this is a welcome addition to the small list of historical novels set in colonial Bombay but stops short.
Janhavi Acharekar

Rich and real

The real Goa, with its petty rural politics, ecological exploitation, gender inequality, and contrasting lives, comes through brilliantly.
Janhavi Acharekar
“Families Are Like Rivers, Goa Familia”, curated by Line Vincent and Akshay Mahajan. 

How the Serendipity Arts Festival celebrated the spirit of community

The 2022 edition included different forms of art and disciplines not usually categorised as art.
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Masanori Fukuoka

‘The sea was Nasreen Mohamedi’s enduring source of inspiration’: Masanori Fukuoka

Interview with the art collector and founder of Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan.
Janhavi Acharekar
Nasreen Mohamedi by Jyoti Bhatt.

Nasreen Mohamedi and her remarkable abstractionist art

Mohamedi is regarded as one of the important modern women artists of the subcontinent.
Janhavi Acharekar
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