A unicorn, an empty boat, a winged messenger. Decoding the haunting symbols of Badri Narayan’s art
Read more ...Seeking Badri
Multimedia master
Printmaking, teaching, writing, illustrating. Badri brought something new to each medium he explored
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Cross culture
Jesus Christ Superstar
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Of the people
Easter in the East
Lucknow under seige
Where tehzeeb still lives
We spent an evening soaking in the gracious warmth of the city, as personified by the home of Meera and Muzaffar Ali
Read more ...8 reasons to love the Bara Imambara
Reading the ruins
Walking through The Residency today is like listening to the whispers of a ghost town.
Read more ...La Martiniere and the sentinels of history
A food trail of lucknow
Meet the travelers
Portrait of a nation
The Sarmaya guide to power posing in the 1800s
If you were landed, wealthy and influential in 19th-century India, you simply had to get a photograph taken. Here’s what we’ve learnt about taking a great photo from the lords and ladies of colonial India.
Read more ...19th-Century Photography: Painted Photographs
At: Pundole’s Auction House, Ballard Estate, Mumbai; On: 17th February, 2018 Hand-painting of photographs is a method of manually adding colour to a photographic print in order to highlight certain areas, add more depth and enhance the overall aesthetics of the image. In India, it gained massively in popularity among royalty and wealthy art patrons, who… Read more »
Gond and puppetry workshop with Akanksha Foundation
We partnered with the City as Lab initiative to help young researchers illustrate civic and social issues through art.