Peshal
Peshal I write this form a place 100 kilometers from Nasik city and two kilometers from the Gujarat border. Surganna is in the famous Dang teak and bamboo forests. I…
Paris
Paris Dhurries in the shop window read ‘Kismet at reduced rates.’ In the Algerian marketplace the little people are rummaging the left-overs. The punk has her hair and elders shocked…
From banning the Bra to Wonderbra – the (victoria’s) secrets out.
Feminism, the bad good word of the 60’s, is symbolized in the burning of bras, mythic or otherwise. Bra burning was considered a protest against the Miss America pageants, just…
Quintessential Ashok
The timing has never been better for photographers who want to explore the creative world of fine art photography. The market is in a nascent stage but if art is…
Sheetal Gattani – catalogue
Sheetal Gattani’s paintings at first make you wonder where the painting is. They are subdued, reticent, squares of texture in the true abstract mold. When the figurative moved to the…
Almost Americans – Gouri Gill
Jeet Tahil’s introductory essay The Future Infinitives might be suggestive of a more appropriate title to the current, Gauri Gill’s show of photographs, The Americans. “Almost Americans”, might coalesce a…
Of Pink Ponies and Cepahlic entropy
Rameshwar Broota is a fine artist and that would it seems be enough credential to explore other mediums and the message. This, his first show of photographs is intriguing. There…
Bonjour – wake up and smell the Chromes.
It might be hard to think of a world a mere 100 years ago where colour photography was in its infancy. The Lumière brothers had just invented and patented the…
Indeterminate
The space between the progressive and regressive, the modern and the ancient are the subjects of Bharat Sikka’s debutant fine art photography show on at the C&L gallery in Colaba.…
Annu ennui
Identities and resulting crises are not new to humanity nor is migration. Every single person on the planet except those still on the plains of Kenya is a product of…