What ifs are in the realm of idle speculation. But it’s tempting to ponder this one: what if Jamini Roy in his mid-30s, with a fairly successful, if unremarkable, career had not swerved onto a c...

For a man who’s left a huge body of work behind — which, in turn, generated a massive amount of print — Rabindranath Tagore remains elusively complex. Most educated speakers of the l...

Amol Palekar has expressed his “hurt” at the silence of the artists at a National Gallery of Modern Art event in Mumbai where he was interrupted on Friday for criticising the culture ministry’s ...

Over 1,800 mementos that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had received were sold at a fortnight-long auction that began last month, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Sunday.It remains unclear how much...

Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF soldiers in Kashmir’s Pulwama on February 14, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar was forced to cancel a play looking at the behaviour of Indian...

Thirteen’s unlucky,' I remarked as one of the organisers of an auction of gifts received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his term in office handed me a bidding paddle. 'Unlucky for some -- lu...

Lovers of art can now enjoy a virtual tour of the permanent display of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi. The NGMA launched the virtual tour on its website on the eve of its 66...

In the election season, ‘kisne kisko topi pehnayi? (who made a fool of whom)’ becomes a hot topic but Indians now have a chance to adorn themselves or friends with mementos that have been gifted t...

Some kinds of silence can be deafening. Consider the silence of the senior artists, who refused to intervene when the director of the National Gallery of Modern Art and the former head of an artists�...

Actor-director Amol Palekar was forced to cut his speech short at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai on Friday when he criticised the culture ministry’s functioning and mentioned the attac...