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‘1001 and Counting’ – Sudarshan Shaw’s art encounters with India’s tigers
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
Spotlight
Gopa Trivedi’s Gulistan
Drawing from Persian poetry, Mughal gardens, and colonial botanical studies, Gopa Trivedi’s painting series ‘Gulistan’ explores urgently contemporary themes like othering and pluralism
Spotlight
In The Dappled Light
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.
Exhibitions
In The Dappled Light
Our show in Mumbai explores the expansive role of India’s natural world on all human endeavours
Workshops
Bombay Painters & Poets Crawl
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 »
Workshops
Map it Out: A journey of discovery for kids!
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 »
Workshops
Tamil Nadu to Dharavi: a Pongal Special walk
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 »
Talks
‘The Lion & The Lily – Rise and Fall of Awadh’ by Ira Mukhoty
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 »
Exhibitions
High Seas, Open Roads
We’re excited to be opening 2025 with our fourth show, and the first to be hosted at our archive in Fort.
Talks
‘Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity’ by Manu S Pillai
“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 »
Spotlight
Object story: Goa’s First Railway
The scene depicted in this artwork portrays the tail end of the downfall of the once mighty Portuguese empire in India
Films
Jethro Buck’s Wild Worlds
A film aboutby Sarmaya for an December 2024 show by Waswo x Waswo at the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts
Spotlight
Fantastic Beasts – Second Edition
For our 40th issue of Spotlight, we’re revisiting a theme we first explored back in 2019: the magnificent beasts who have charmed us with their form and spirit over the ages.
Quizzes
Ganesha: The God & The Legend
Test yourself on the mythology, art, culture and food inspired by Lord Ganesha
Spotlight
The Emperor & The Hawk
Cleverly hidden in the design of a silver coin is the story of Mughal emperor Jahangir’s lifelong fascination with birds of prey
Spotlight
Under The Skin – Dharavi’s Lost Leather Artisans
A third-generation ‘Bombay-Tamil’ narrates a personal history of Dharavi’s leather industry and its vanished ‘tholwadis’
Reads
Sarmaya Zodiac 2024
All through 2024, explore the Sarmaya collection through the 12 sun signs of the zodiac. Updated every month, from Feb 2024 – Jan 2025
Sarmaya @School
Sarmaya x Sanctuary Asia Kids for Tigers
On 19 July 2024, Sarmaya organised a puppet-making workshop for the Kids for Tigers event by Sanctuary Asia at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai. This was our second collaboration with the conservation organisation. Over 60 students from various schools across the city participated in the workshop, which was inspired by… Read more »