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

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Panels of Protest: The Activist Streak in Indian Comics

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Making Tara: Gender, Power, and The Female Bodhisattva

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How Europe Appropriated the Kashmiri Shawl

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How ‘Suf’ Embroidery Reshaped a Refugee Community

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Setting the Table: Dining Rituals of the Mughal ‘Mirza’

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How Raja Ravi Varma’s Lithographic Press Shaped Hindu Devotion

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The Scripted ‘Aurat’: Urdu Typography & the Feminine Ideal in Pakistani Ads

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Between Worlds: Indian Ayahs in Colonial-Era Paintings

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Different Bodies: A Subversive Iconography of Apasmara the Dwarf

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By the Book: The Enduring Rituals of Islamic Bibliomancy

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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