INDIAN ART TREASURES (Jnana-Pravaha and Mosaic, price not mentioned) is a beautifully produced and curated book, possibly of unmentionable expensiveness, that catalogues the Suresh Neotia collection, most of which is now kept in the Jnana-Pravaha museum in Varanasi. The collection includes Indian miniature paintings, Tibetan and Nepalese tangkhas, stone and terracotta artefacts from various periods, coins and textiles, ranging from the 5th century BC to the British period. On the left are pages from the remarkable sketchbook of the mid-15th-century Nevar artist, Jivarama — a vital document of Buddhist history. Mixing the Chinese and Tibetan artistic traditions with his native Nepalese, Jivarama depicts the arhats or attendants of major Buddhist deities. On the right is a late-18th-century Pahari miniature from the Seu-Nainsukh family workshop. It depicts Krishna looking down with ludic tenderness at a Radha pretending not to meet his gaze. Or are they just a nayaka and a nayika playing out a quiet afternoon drama somewhere between poetry and painting?