Gallery Prologue • 8th January 2026

Vijay Singh Mohite: Inexorable Pulsations | Gallery Prologue | 8 Jan - 22 Feb

I was the curatorial advisor and catalogue writer for an exhibition of works by a late Gwalior-based abstract artist who, in his lifetime, only exhibited for a brief period in the 1970s.

Scroll.in • 16th December 2025

From dust to digital: The quest to preserve India’s bazaar art

An ambitious project is digitising Priya Paul’s art collection, preserving vintage ads, cinema posters and more for future generations.

Artespace • 8th November 2025

Cantus Firmus: Notes on Listening to Jangarh Singh Shyam

“The earth calls out, ‘Tell me Raja, why are you leaving me? You will never find such love in the city as you have found in your village!’”— Jangarh Singh Shyam

The Wire • 7th November 2025

Geeta Kapur’s Speech Acts Reimagines Modernism for Our Times - The Wire

Attuned to India’s descent into Hindutva and neoliberalism since the 1980s, Kapur situates cultural production in an era of saffron capitalism

Royal Academy Magazine • 1st August 2025

Unbroken Cord

With her otherworldly textile art, Mrinalini Mukherjee united modernism and South Asian folk traditions. Kamayani Sharma explores the strands of Mukherjee’s career ahead
of an RA show on the artist and her circle.

Take On Art blog • 22nd April 2025

Listening In and Finding Balance

Dispatch from the Pro Helvetia x TAKE On Art Art Writers' Award residency 2025

South Parade • 1st April 2025

A Counter-Aesthetic: The Art of Vikrant Bhise

A longform essay on the aesthetics and politics of artist Vikrant Bhise.

ASAP • 19th March 2025

On Process at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Interviews with creators/ curators behind five projects at Chennai Photo Biennale 2024, focussing on the histories and fundamentals of the photographic process they engaged with.

Marg • 1st March 2025

H for Hate

A book review of 'H Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars' by Kunal Purohit.

Mint Lounge • 2nd February 2025

Artists take the farmlands into the gallery

A new generation of artists is countering exploitative models of agriculture and creating works of art that embody care for the land and justice for the farmers.

Scroll.in • 19th November 2024

How a British suffragist brought Ajanta’s ancient paintings into the light of modernity

Christiana Herringham led a historic project, involving some of India’s greatest artists, to copy Ajanta images so that they could be taken to the world.

Scroll.in • 12th October 2024

A century on, Begum Rokeya’s feminist science fiction is still inspiring Indian artists

Rokeya’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’ critiques the present not only by evoking a seemingly impossible future but by revealing how the past persists and prevails.

Scroll.in • 10th September 2024

A pioneer of performance art in India reflects on her decades-long journey

For years, Ratnabali Kant responded to political, economic and social transformations by synthesising performance and installation. Now she looks back.

Scroll.in • 10th August 2024

A painting of Akbar in a drunken brawl is a history lesson in manliness and kingship

The miniature from ‘Akbarnama’ deviates from the text of the biography to present a badshah who has control over the body physic and politic.

Scroll.in • 11th July 2024

Why is Surya the only god in the Brahmanic pantheon to wear high boots?

The sun god’s induction into the Buddhist religio-cultural sphere led to his transformed aspect.

Scroll.in • 8th June 2024

Why these travel posters sparked a fiery debate between Indian and British legislators in the 1930s

As anticolonial sentiment and nationalist confidence grew under the Raj, a series of promotional posters became a fleeting but intense locus of contention.

Scroll.in • 11th May 2024

What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj

The bracelet worn by the central figure in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Beloved’ (1865) embodies the traffic between Britain and the jewel in its Crown.

Scroll.in • 6th April 2024

After seeing Mysore art in a gallery, one man has spent his whole life collecting and conserving it

Possessing a collection of 600 Mysore paintings, RG Singh’s passion project, the Ramsingh Museum, provides a synoptic view of a distinctive regional style.

TAKE On art • 5th March 2024

Arshi Ahmadzai's publication 'Nafas: Isolation Diaries'.

Book review

Scroll.in • 4th March 2024

A 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by history

From this distance, it is hard to define Maharani Manmohini’s contributions in the photo studio: was she her husband’s collaborator or assistant?

Scroll.in • 3rd February 2024

How did an Italian prisoner of war end up painting these beautiful frescoes in a Dehradun church?

Nino La Civita’s rollercoaster life in India took him from the mansions of the rich to internment camps to finally the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.

Scroll.in • 3rd January 2024

Please touch: Indian art is finally growing sensitive to the needs of the visually impaired

Museums as well as galleries are displaying tactile panels to make art accessible to people with disabilities.

Scroll.in • 30th November 2023

An Indian artist who helped decolonise Christian art has been relegated to the margins in death

Trindade’s stylistic trajectory over the decades loosely paralleled shifts in Indian modernism.

Critical Collective • 25th September 2023

Book review: Postnational Perceptions in Contemporary Art Practice