Longform features on art and art history with critical insights, analysis, and observations.

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How Colonial-Era French Jesuits Mapped the Idea of India

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The Examined Line: The 'Lahore School' of Neo-Miniature

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How Mughal Fashion Blended Statecraft and Style

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Forest Guardians: The ‘Bhutas’ of Bali and Tulu Nadu

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Mapping Malleshwaram: An Urban Neighbourhood's Layered Vocabulary

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Shifting Frames: Activism and the Indian Documentary Form

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Painting Urdu: How a Hybrid Language Becomes Art

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The Corrupt Margins: The Club in 1950s Bombay Cinema

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Comradeships of Art-Making in Ranjit Hoskote’s Poetic Practice

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How an Awadh Court Play Shaped the Bollywood ‘Item Number’

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Solar Symbolism in Mughal Art and Architecture

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From Paris to Patiala: Mapping Art Deco’s Indian Turn

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What Happens in the Margins: BN Goswamy's Musings on 'Hashiya'

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Wife, Mother, Warrior: Female Akalis in Colonial Art

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The Deities of Maladies: Goddess Cults Around Pandemics

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Travelling Plays: Shadow Puppetry’s Journey Across Borders

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Noble Vices: The Role of Intoxicants in Mughal Courtly Culture

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Killing the Tiger: ‘Shikar’ and Masculinity in Colonial India