Featured image: South African Zanele Muholi’s photographs at Kochi Biennale 2018.
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Art reviews, essays and interviews (2013 – present):
FIRSTPOST (2019 onwards)
Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee’s Met retrospective showcases wild, free-flowing sculptures
From conflict-ridden North East, eight artist re-imagine borders in subtle, ironic ways
Nasreen Mohamedi: Beyond the Line
An artist’s response to Sabarimala
THE WIRE (2019)
How do you revive a newspaper’s photo archive in present-day India?
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST INDIA (2019)
At Venice Biennale, there’s more to India than just Gandhi
Whitney Biennial takes a closer look at political and racial issues
Chicago Architecture Biennial interrogates historical narratives of built environment
THE HINDU (2019)
The line that unites two generation of artists
AKAR PRAKAR, NEW DELHI (2019 onwards)
Cambodian contemporary art: In Conversation with Erin Gleeson
Dharmendra Prasad: In search of borderless utopia
Debasish Mukherjee: Fabric as memory
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018
Profiles of participating artists
REUTERS (2013 -2015)
Imaging Sri Lanka’s colonial past
Photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta’s homecoming
Baby steps for India art market, best yet to come
Glimpses of Indian Buddhist art
Photo Gallery – Impressions from the India Art Fair
The body as an art form in India
Inside is everything in Subodh Gupta show
A walk through the India Art Fair 2014
Delhi Art Gallery’s nude portrait exhibition draws protesters
Reliving ‘Aruna’s Story’ – on stage
Photo gallery: A walk through Mayawati’s Dalit Park
Shamshad Begum: A tribute to a voice long gone
Remembering Reshma, Pakistan’s ‘first lady’ of folk music
ARTDOSE (2019)
Ranbir Kaleka: Where the mind travels
Arpita Singh: A life in painting
India Art Fair: Beyond the Subcontinent
Pushpamala N: The Body Politic
MATTERS OF ART (2018)
The muted intensity of Farrokh Chothia’s Jazz Portraits
ART1ST (2018)
The Earthiness of Vipul Kumar’s Ceramic Sculptures
When art transcends human creativity
From India and the World, a gallery tour of masterpieces on 200-year-old freedom struggles
New art exhibition in Delhi introduces rare genre of colour field painting to art lovers
Interwoven narratives of Indian and Thai textiles
BOOK TALKS
Reuters (2013 – 2015)
Barkha Dutt on India’s ‘fault lines’ and personal reinvention
Being gay and ‘No One Else’ in India and the USA
Revisiting Bangladesh, 43 years after the independence war
Guns, war and a dove – Sri Lanka looks for a new life
Mahabharata retold, with a twist from writer Kiran Nagarkar
Ten years on, Chetan Bhagat says better prepared to face critics
Navtej Sarna on India’s Jerusalem connection
Rana Dasgupta on a ‘vastly under-imagined Delhi’
Reema Abbasi and a glimpse of Pakistan’s Hindu past
The Quint (2016)
How a travelogue uses familiar cinema and books to remember cities
LONG-FORM REPORTAGE
Freemuse.org (2016)
