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“The spinning wheel” by Kanishka Prasad and Vertika Chaturvedi. In the background is a display of SAHMAT’s publications on the Indian national movement.

Retracing India’s legacy of resistance, from 1857 onwards

“India is not Lost”, an art exhibition organised by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust to commemorate the country’s 75th year of independence, serves as

'Jantar Mantar 2019', photograph by Vinit Gupta.

Musings on freedom

An exhibition in New Delhi of the works of 52 artists titled “The Constitution of India at 70” reminds us that we are the inheritors of a powerful art

Global Warming-II. In porcelain, size: 33 x 29 x 28 cm.-

Modern and masterly

Vipul Kumars work is propelled by his enormous understanding of and control over the different materials he uses to express ideas that he has held con

'FLOATING SEEDS IN the Blowing Wind', 36' x 48', oil on canvas (2005).-PHOTOGRAPHS: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Return of the native

Chicago-based Indian artist S.V. Rama Rao finds his way back to India and India's art for inspiration.

Freddy Huck, former president of the Trade Union International, addressing the third conference of the group in Paris.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Voice of the masses

Representatives of over 150 organisations from 82 countries meet in Paris at the third Conference of the Trade Union International.

In this photograph by Sonia Jabbar, Hajra Begum of Bandipora holds a framed photograph of her four sons killed in Kashmir and another who disappeared in 1990.-PHOTOGRAPHS BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Politics of the visual

A recent exhibition of photographs and a book to go with it reflect the strength and weakness of visual politics.

Husain was a free-floating spirit, a human being with little respect for borders.-PARTHIV SHAH

Barefoot artist

M.F. Husain was the visual bard of the Republic in the way he portrayed the famous and the masses alike.

Sumant Jayakrishnan, scenographer, at Ugrasen Ki Baoli, Hailey Road.-PHOTOPGRAPHS BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The regal & the real

Designer JJ Valaya uses the subjects of his photographs as performers in a mock-regal charade.

Makeshift classrooms in the wake of hurricane Flora (1963) at Minas de Frio.-PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EXHIBITION: V.V. KRISHNAN

An eye to Cuba

An exhibition in New Delhi of Rodrigo Moya's photographs of the Cuban revolution and the transformation it brought about.

Breakdown Survival, Sumedh Rajendran's sculpture in iron and leather, 2005.-PHOTOGRAPHS: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Angst of the times

Set against a world mired in anxiety and ethnophobia, the sculptures of Sumedh Rajendran engage with the violence inherent in social hierarchy.

Indus Valley in Ladakh, 2009, oil on canvas, 60 x 36 inches.-PICTURES: COURTESY SHIV LAL SAROHA

Colours of reality

THE Indian landscape has infinite variety. Like Shakespeare's Cleopatra, neither age nor time can make it stale. The major beauty of Indian art lies i

Winter (done between 1895 and 1905), oil on canvas, by Yuly Yulievich Klever (1850-1924)-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Russian Winter in India

The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, a city better known to our generation as Leningrad, was established in 1895 by a decree of Nicholas II, the last