In March 2025, our show ‘In The Dappled Light’ opened at the Sarmaya archive in Fort Mumbai. The exhibition focused on how India’s natural world has inspired artists, scientists, healers and seekers across the centuries.
Gond Adivasi artist Ram Singh Urveti narrates the story of two trees sacred to his community’s faith
How did a Mother Goddess from Gujarat become a patron saint for India’s hijra community?
In KP Pradeepkumar’s brooding, poetic landscapes, nature is not a passive backdrop but a powerful force that demands our attention
For a special edition of Sarmaya Talks held during our show, artist Sudarshan shared glimpses of his journey creating a unique art style ‘Folk Indica’ to showcase India’s bio-cultural diversity
Drawing from Persian poetry, Mughal gardens, and colonial botanical studies, Gopa Trivedi’s painting series ‘Gulistan’ explores urgently contemporary themes like othering and pluralism
Our show in Mumbai explores the expansive role of India’s natural world on all human endeavours
On the 25th of January, 2025, as part of the outreach of Sarmaya’s ongoing exhibition High Seas, Open Roads, we hit the town for a Bombay Painters & Poets Crawl. Conceptualised and led by Saranya Subramanian, the crawl kicked off at Flora Fountain. The group wound their way through the alleys and bylanes of Fort,… Read more »
On 18th January 2025, we were delighted to welcome some excited kids at Sarmaya for our event ‘Map it Out’’. Sarmaya’s education team led them on a walkthrough of our exhibition ‘High Seas, Open Roads!’, where we explored how artists reflected on the world around them. Here the kids surveyed a wide range of artefacts… Read more »
On the 14th of January, 2025, as part of the outreach for Sarmaya’s exhibition High Seas, Open Roads Sarmaya’s Research & Curatorial Assistant Pooja Ashokkumar led a walk in Dharavi on the occasion of Pongal. The walk started bright and early for the group of twelve, by watching the Pongal (the traditional Tamil sweet dish) being… Read more »
Ira Mukhoty originally set out to research the French empire in India during the 18th century but found herself drawn instead to the fascinating world of Awadh’s nawabs and begums. Her book, The Lion and the Lily, delves into the history of this region and period through the prism of the global Franco-British wars. She… Read more »
We’re excited to be opening 2025 with our fourth show, and the first to be hosted at our archive in Fort.
“Hinduism’s encounter with the West and Christianity is a fascinating story.” Historian and best-selling author Manu S Pillai launched his book, Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity, with a talk at the Sarmaya archive in Fort, Mumbai on 7 December, 2024. He took questions from the audience after the Talk.… Read more »
The scene depicted in this artwork portrays the tail end of the downfall of the once mighty Portuguese empire in India
