Remembering Mughal Begums
Wendell Rodricks’ Legacy
Flowers for Spring
Vasantam. Basant. Spring. A time to put away the winter greys and take a deep breath before the onslaught of summer. About now, the earth itself seems to get in the spirit of things by spreading a crazy quilt of colours over the landscape. Flowers don’t care where they bloom, whether in a perfumed garden… Read more »
Read more ...Honeyed Vines – Floral Motifs in Madhubani Art
The flowers of Bihar are both a symbol and an essential ingredient in traditional Mithila or Madhubani paintings
Read more ...Anatomy Of A Flower – Exquisite 19th-Century Botanicals by Indian Artists
A rare book from our collection, ‘Indian Botany’ by Dr Robert Wight combines scientific survey with outstanding illustrations by artists we will never know. Our interview with Dr Henry Noltie throws new light on them
Read more ...Where the Wildflowers Bloom: The Art Of Hima Hariharan
Hima Hariharan’s flower-stained watercolour paintings resemble childhood treasures gathered from a forest floor and pressed lovingly between the pages of a fat book
Read more ...Saturday Art Class – Gond Workshop
We’re stronger together! That was the theme of this Gond art workshop, conducted at a BMC school in Mumbai
Dancing Queens
When Sarmaya got the chance to host an event with two of the most celebrated figures in Indian dance, we knew we had to push the envelope. We partnered with the dance company beej to bring Mallika Sarabhai and Anita Ratnam to Mumbai and engage them in a conversation about the transformative power of dance.… Read more »
Nainsukh’s Trumpeters
Master in Session
Subcontinental drift
Saturday Art Class – Painted photography workshop
We flag off a promising new collaboration to bring art to over a thousand children studying in municipal schools across Mumbai
‘Urdu: Mohabbat aur Inquilab ki Zubaan’ by Javed Akhtar
Watch: The Oldest Known Story
Mumbai Unfiltered
Queeristan
India’s Forgotten Artists
Visiting Lala Deen Dayal’s India
In the mid-1870s, an Indian engineer emerged as an unlikely documentarian of both the British Raj and princely India. The story of Lala Deen Dayal is tied to the fortunes of Hyderabad and its flamboyant sixth Nizam
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