There are two main techniques of kalamkari: hand-painted and block-printed. In hand-painted kalamkari, artisans use bamboo ...

Across India, entire communities continue to practise centuries-old folk crafts, turning their villages into living museums ...

From a Mahabharata painting for Emmanuel Macron to Ayurvedic classics for Slovak leaders, PM Modi's carefully curated gifts ...

This collection explores the enduring vitality of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, showcasing their pervasive influence across ...

I HAVE heard it said that modern Indian art is neither modern nor Indian. That, of course, is an exaggeration, and yet it causes one to pause momentarily and cast a backward glance over the centuries.

About 2,000 years ago, art on the Indian subcontinent underwent "a stunning transformation", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Where it had previously been "enigmatically abstract", it started to ...

A modern reconstruction of the "Flight of Birds" from a book cover of Fariduddin Attar’s Mantiq-al-Tayr, Private collection (all images courtesy India Allen Lane) These short essays address an array ...

A revision of the author's thesis, Bombay University, 1966. siris_sil_863411 ...

From a Kalamkari Mahabharata painting for French President Emmanuel Macron to a Kashmiri silk carpet for Slovak PM Robert Fico, here's a look at the traditional Indian gifts PM Narendra Modi presented ...