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Drawing Room: Virenpratap Singh Bhaika on Japani Shyam’s modern Gond art

Japani Shyam’s art depicts the forest as a living cosmos where tigers, birds and trees flow into one another.

Updated on Oct 02, 2025 09:20 PM IST

2000s kids, assemble: Time to relive your core memories

How low did low-rise jeans go? Let’s just say we can recall some people’s buttcracks from memory. (ILLUSTRATION BY JAYANTO)

Published on Oct 02, 2025 09:15 PM IST

Get to know... Shanaya Makani

Shanaya Makani says she would swipe right on Pedro Pascal, because who wouldn’t? (@ShanayaMakani)

Updated on Sep 19, 2025 05:37 PM IST

Drawing Room: Salonika Meattle Aggarwal on Senaka Senanayake’s vibrant art

Senaka Senanayake’s Butterflies (2022) depicts the insects and lush greens native to Sri Lanka. (SALONIKA MEATTLE AGGARWAL)

Updated on Sep 19, 2025 05:35 PM IST

T is brewing: See why fashion is suddenly obsessing over the humble T-shirt

Remember Hailey Bieber’s Nepo Baby tee? It was a stylish clapback at trolls.

Updated on Aug 09, 2025 06:24 PM IST

Joy division: How Kanika Goyal is making fashion fun again

Kanika Goyal showcased at London Fashion Week and launched a line with Disney. (SHOT BY RAJ K RAJ)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 04:59 PM IST

Drawing Room: Hemant Gavankar on Gieve Patel’s Peacock at Nariman Point

Patel’s painting, Peacock at Nariman Point (1999), captures Mumbai on the brink of a new century.

Published on Jun 13, 2025 10:24 AM IST

Beige flag: Do global beauty brands understand Indian skin?

Deeper skin tones are prone to hyperpigmentation. International brands fail to address this. (ADOBE STOCK)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025 04:49 PM IST

Drawing Room: Ritika Aurora loves how Arpita Singh uses pink

Is There Any Other Way To Return Home (2019) unpacks the grief of forced migration.

Updated on May 30, 2025 05:30 PM IST

Drawing Room: Madhu Das on the light in Sheela Gowda’s Darkroom

For Darkroom (2006), Sheela Gowda stacked tar drums to create a hut like those found in Indian slums.

Updated on May 16, 2025 05:36 PM IST

Drawing Room: Tanushree Chakraborty on Shahid Parvez’s whimsical art

Shahid Parvez’s Chal Meri Dhanno balances playfulness with depth.

Updated on May 02, 2025 03:45 PM IST

Drawing Room: Yogesh Ramkrishna on Manjunath Kamath’s mythical art

Kamath’s works, including Punarbhava, are a mix of fragments like a hand, foot or a portion of a bird.

Published on Apr 18, 2025 01:33 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Narayan Chandra Biswas loves Zarina Hashmi’s art

In Zarina’s 2001 work, Dividing Line, the Indo-Pak border symbolises both a fracture and a scar. (ZARINA HASHMI)

Updated on Apr 04, 2025 05:07 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Niyamat Mehta is fascinated by Bharti Kher’s bindi art

Bharti Kher’s Drunken Frenzy (2011) is made of bindis.

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 05:54 PM IST

Unsafe space: How to suss out a toxic therapist

In the 2017 series Gypsy, the therapist manipulated her patients.

Updated on Mar 13, 2025 03:25 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Viraj Khanna can’t look away from T Venkanna’s art

T Venkanna’s Golden Teeth draws from post-Impressionism, Mughal miniature and Indian mythology. (IMAGES COURTESY GALLERY MASKARA)

Updated on Mar 07, 2025 05:05 PM IST

Drawing Room: What Alaiia Gujral sees in Ashiesh Shah’s Stambh sculptures

Ashiesh Shah’s pillar sculptures can seem both solid and light.

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 01:44 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Deepak Kumar is inspired by Alex Davis’s art

Alex Davis’s work,The Pashmina Tribe, features mountain goats made of aluminium and steel.

Updated on Feb 07, 2025 05:25 PM IST

Drawing Room: What KR Nariman sees in KS Radhakrishnan’s sculptures

In The Heap, KS Radhakrishnan uses five interlocking Musui and Maiya figures. (ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE ARTIST)

Updated on Jan 24, 2025 03:29 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Samyukta Madhu sees herself in G Ravinder Reddy’s art

G Ravinder Reddy’s works represent power, femininity and South Indian identity. (PHOTO COURTESY SAMYUKTA MADHU)

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 03:28 PM IST

Drawing Room: Deena Pindoria finds meaning in Gunjan Chawla Kumar’s art

Gunjan Chawla Kumar’s works are created with pure coloured pigments on Indian muslin. She whirls her pigments like a dervish to create thousands of handmade cones. (Exhibit 320)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 02:30 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Santanu Hazarika is inspired by Kunel Gaur’s art

Gaur’s Kumi series is reminiscent of 2000s Japanese visuals, down to the text and colours.

Updated on Dec 13, 2024 03:13 PM IST

Drawing Room: Sahaya Sharma takes a journey with Anjolie Ela Menon’s Yatra

Yatra is based on the annual march of the kawariyas to the Ganga. (SAHAYA SHARMA AND ANJOLIE ELA MENON)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 02:54 PM IST

Drawing Room: Varad Bang reflects upon Amrita Sher-gil’s portrait

Sher-Gil painted this when she was just 19.

Updated on Nov 15, 2024 06:37 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Schon Mendes is a fan of Valay Shende’s artworks

Valay Shende created Virar Fast from thousands of tiny stainless-steel discs. (VALAY SHENDE, SAKSHI GALLERY)

Updated on Nov 01, 2024 03:50 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Vishnu Prasad loves Ajmal Shifaz’s collaborative art

Ajmal Shifaz’s sculpture is inspired by the games the kids played on the streets of Mustafabad in the aftermath of the 2020 violence.

Updated on Oct 18, 2024 05:09 PM IST

Drawing Room: Richa Arya sees the price of urbanism in Deepak Kumar’s art

In Crossing (2021-2022) Deepak Kumar uses natural elements mixed with urban themes to showcase ecological issues. (IMAGE COURTESY: RICHA ARYA AND DEEPAK KUMAR)

Updated on Oct 04, 2024 02:20 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Janhavi Khemka loves Sumakshi Singh’s installations

Sumakshi Singh’s In, Between the Pages references 14th and 17th century voyages made by astronomers from Kerala.

Updated on Sep 20, 2024 06:25 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Jayati Kaushik loves Jyoti Bhatt’s serigraphs

Jyoti Bhatt’s serigraph, Jal Thal Nabh, intertwines the elements of water, earth and sky. (PHOTOS: ARCHER ART GALLERY, AHMEDABAD)

Updated on Sep 06, 2024 04:02 PM IST

Drawing Room: Why Harsha Durugadda loves Manish Nai’s installations

In Manish Nai’s work, Surfacing, corrugated steel panels are layered to form textured collages. (PHOTOS: GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUECKE)

Updated on Aug 23, 2024 04:10 PM IST

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