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

Sholay’s Dhanno, a cow slurping ice-cream, a riot of colour – Shahid Parvez’s paintings are a joyride of childlike imagination and grown-up emotions

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

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Updated on May 02, 2025 03:45 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

B Manjunath Kamath conjures up new creatures and narratives, using unexpected fragments of men, gods, birds and bovines

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

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Published on Apr 18, 2025 01:33 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Zarina Hashmi’s works keep questioning ideas of belonging. See how she makes a single line echo the history of two nations

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

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Updated on Apr 04, 2025 05:07 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Zoom in. Bharti Kher’s works are dotted with meaning. And every bindi represents her connection to India and the spiritual

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

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Updated on Mar 21, 2025 05:54 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Unsafe space: How to suss out a toxic therapist

Is your therapist judgy? A tattletale? A bully? Spot these red flags before you sit on the couch. All healing starts from a safe space

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

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Updated on Mar 13, 2025 03:25 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

T Venkanna’s art isn’t easy to look at. That is exactly why you should see it. Sex, gore, beauty, life — he weaves it all in, with fire

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

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Updated on Mar 07, 2025 05:05 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Ashiesh Shah’s pillar sculptures echo not just temple architecture, but India’s vast craft traditions and his own modern ideas

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

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Updated on Feb 21, 2025 01:44 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Alex Davis uses soil from far-flung parts of India to create terrains that reflect both geography and memory. Take a close look

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

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Updated on Feb 07, 2025 05:25 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

KS Radhakrishnan’s sculptures are cast in bronze, yet seem light as air. The Heap is a great way to view us all as a single whole

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

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Updated on Jan 24, 2025 03:29 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Curves, rolls of fat, and strong features are on full display in G Ravinder Reddy’s work. It celebrates the real female form

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

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Updated on Jan 10, 2025 03:28 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Gunjan Chawla Kumar’s Sifr series is meditative and repetitive. It shows that something can come from nothing

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)

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Updated on Dec 27, 2024 02:30 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Kunel Gaur’s Kumi series turns geometric shapes and Japanese graphic design into art. Are you getting early 2000s vibes too?

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

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Updated on Dec 13, 2024 03:13 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Take a closer look at Anjolie Ela Menon’s triptych, Yatra. Like life, it demands that the viewer embark on a journey

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

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Updated on Nov 29, 2024 02:54 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Playing with lighting and layering, a young Amrita Sher-Gil depicted herself as bold, mischievous, and enigmatic - all at once

Sher-Gil painted this when she was just 19.

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Updated on Nov 15, 2024 06:37 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Valay Shende’s Virar Fast, depicts more than Mumbai’s constant state of rush. Despite the struggle, there’s empathy too

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

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Updated on Nov 01, 2024 03:50 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Ajmal Shifaz used junk metal objects and the imagination of children to bring a community closer. Alongside, he created art in motion

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

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Updated on Oct 18, 2024 05:09 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

What can bird skeletons, blueprints, glass and geometry tools tell us about how our cities are changing? Deepak Kumar shows us how to read between the skylines

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

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Updated on Oct 04, 2024 02:20 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Artist Sumakshi Singh’s large-scale installations tell tales of maritime journeys and adventures, connecting the human to the larger cosmos

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

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Updated on Sep 20, 2024 06:25 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Jyoti Bhatt’s serigraphs use traditional symbols in modern ways, creating art that is slyly clever and full of little stories

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

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Updated on Sep 06, 2024 04:02 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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

Manish Nai turns rusty metal sheets, butter paper and newsprint into textured collages. Nothing is quite what it seems

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

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Updated on Aug 23, 2024 04:10 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Dhruv Jani loves Gigi Scaria’s elevator simulation

Artist Gigi Scaria creates installations that are immersive but deeply critical of the urban world we inhabit

Gigi Scaria’s installation, Elevator From The Subcontinent, simulates a ride in a lift. (COLLECTION AND IMAGE COURTESY: KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART)

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Updated on Aug 09, 2024 04:49 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Aaron Myles Pereira is intrigued by Yashwant Singh’s art

Yashwant Singh creates art using his own body. It’s performative and gets us to think about ideas, processes and identity

Yashwant Singh imprints himself on to paper by using soot or lampblack, in different postures.

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Updated on Jul 26, 2024 04:19 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Payal Arya loves Shilpa Gupta’s artworks

Shilpa Gupta’s work maps our collective imagination. It confronts the viewer with questions of nationhood, identity, and belonging

In 100 Hand Drawn Maps of My Country, Shilpa Gupta asked people to draw their nation’s maps from memory.

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Updated on Jul 12, 2024 04:42 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Ayesha Singh loves Sakshi Gupta’s works

Sakshi Gupta’s Spaces of Being packs in chickens, eggs, feathers, and ideas. Think of it as a metaphor for a restless mind

Sakshi Gupta’s Spaces of Being represents the mind and its caged emotions.

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Updated on Jun 28, 2024 06:07 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Natasha Sachdeva loves Anupam Sud’s artworks

Anupam Sud’s works focus on women, their place in the world, and their complex relationships. Nothing is what it seems

Anupam Sud’s 1982 painting, Waking, evokes feelings of discomfort, pain, grief, and vulnerability

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Updated on Jun 14, 2024 05:08 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Tehmeena Firdos loves Vivan Sundaram’s installations

Vivan Sundaram’s 12 Bed Ward, is sparse, simple, but haunting. Is this an abandoned hospital, a forgotten dorm, a bombed-out base or something more familiar?

Vivan Sundaram’s 2008 work, Fly, seems eerily familiar to visual artist Tehmeena Firdos. (VIVAN SUNDARAM)

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Updated on May 31, 2024 03:52 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Hashim Badani loves Sudhir Patwardhan’s paintings

Sudhir Patwardhan’s works show a Mumbai that viewers may find familiar. But look closer. The details tell new tales, trigger universal questions

Sudhir Patwardhan paintings, such as Mumbai Proverbs’ Panels 1 – 5, present a Mumbai most people see but never closely notice.

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Published on May 17, 2024 05:15 AM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Drawing Room: Why Gauri Gill’s masked portraits excite Mira F Malhotra

Gauri Gill’s portraits showcase ordinary folks, doing ordinary things, but wearing extraordinary masks. See why the quirky series is more than what meets the eye

Gauri Gill’s photographs feature ordinary people with masks, made by folk artists from the Jawhar district of Maharashtra. (COPYRIGHT GAURI GILL)

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Updated on May 06, 2024 05:27 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

Childfree and loving it: What life is like with no kids

Being childfree can be just as rewarding as having a big family. Those who’ve made the choice say there’s no guilt, no regret. There are however, new challenges

Wrestler John Cena and his wife Shay Shariatzadeh have been public about their decision to not have kids. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

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Updated on Apr 26, 2024 04:55 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

No filter, tough job: What being a social-media manager is really like

Tagging. Collabs. 50 retakes. Social-media management isn’t as glam as it looks. Here‘s an IRL BTS of how it all gets produced

Social media management is too new a field for a formal degree. But it did get a boost during the pandemic.

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Updated on Apr 12, 2024 06:16 PM IST

ByNoor Anand Chawla

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Sholay’s Dhanno, a cow slurping ice-cream, a riot of colour – Shahid Parvez’s paintings are a joyride of childlike imagination and grown-up emotions

B Manjunath Kamath conjures up new creatures and narratives, using unexpected fragments of men, gods, birds and bovines

Zarina Hashmi’s works keep questioning ideas of belonging. See how she makes a single line echo the history of two nations

Zoom in. Bharti Kher’s works are dotted with meaning. And every bindi represents her connection to India and the spiritual

Is your therapist judgy? A tattletale? A bully? Spot these red flags before you sit on the couch. All healing starts from a safe space

T Venkanna’s art isn’t easy to look at. That is exactly why you should see it. Sex, gore, beauty, life — he weaves it all in, with fire

Ashiesh Shah’s pillar sculptures echo not just temple architecture, but India’s vast craft traditions and his own modern ideas

Alex Davis uses soil from far-flung parts of India to create terrains that reflect both geography and memory. Take a close look

KS Radhakrishnan’s sculptures are cast in bronze, yet seem light as air. The Heap is a great way to view us all as a single whole

Curves, rolls of fat, and strong features are on full display in G Ravinder Reddy’s work. It celebrates the real female form

Gunjan Chawla Kumar’s Sifr series is meditative and repetitive. It shows that something can come from nothing

Kunel Gaur’s Kumi series turns geometric shapes and Japanese graphic design into art. Are you getting early 2000s vibes too?

Take a closer look at Anjolie Ela Menon’s triptych, Yatra. Like life, it demands that the viewer embark on a journey

Playing with lighting and layering, a young Amrita Sher-Gil depicted herself as bold, mischievous, and enigmatic - all at once

Valay Shende’s Virar Fast, depicts more than Mumbai’s constant state of rush. Despite the struggle, there’s empathy too

Ajmal Shifaz used junk metal objects and the imagination of children to bring a community closer. Alongside, he created art in motion

What can bird skeletons, blueprints, glass and geometry tools tell us about how our cities are changing? Deepak Kumar shows us how to read between the skylines

Artist Sumakshi Singh’s large-scale installations tell tales of maritime journeys and adventures, connecting the human to the larger cosmos

Jyoti Bhatt’s serigraphs use traditional symbols in modern ways, creating art that is slyly clever and full of little stories

Manish Nai turns rusty metal sheets, butter paper and newsprint into textured collages. Nothing is quite what it seems

Artist Gigi Scaria creates installations that are immersive but deeply critical of the urban world we inhabit

Yashwant Singh creates art using his own body. It’s performative and gets us to think about ideas, processes and identity

Shilpa Gupta’s work maps our collective imagination. It confronts the viewer with questions of nationhood, identity, and belonging

Sakshi Gupta’s Spaces of Being packs in chickens, eggs, feathers, and ideas. Think of it as a metaphor for a restless mind

Anupam Sud’s works focus on women, their place in the world, and their complex relationships. Nothing is what it seems

Vivan Sundaram’s 12 Bed Ward, is sparse, simple, but haunting. Is this an abandoned hospital, a forgotten dorm, a bombed-out base or something more familiar?

Sudhir Patwardhan’s works show a Mumbai that viewers may find familiar. But look closer. The details tell new tales, trigger universal questions

Gauri Gill’s portraits showcase ordinary folks, doing ordinary things, but wearing extraordinary masks. See why the quirky series is more than what meets the eye

Being childfree can be just as rewarding as having a big family. Those who’ve made the choice say there’s no guilt, no regret. There are however, new challenges

Tagging. Collabs. 50 retakes. Social-media management isn’t as glam as it looks. Here‘s an IRL BTS of how it all gets produced

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