When confronted with his captivating canvases, you dive head-first into the stories told by his sinewy figures, floating amidst ebullient swirls of colour
Read more ...Shalihotra Samhita by Ancient India’s Dr Dolittle
A 3rd Century BCE manuscript from our rare books collection holds the key to raising happy horses and elephants
Read more ...Magnificent Beasts and Where to Find them: At the Bombay Horse and Cattle Show, 1890
Welcome to the social event of the year, featuring camels, buffaloes, bulls and other gorgeous Indian specimen
Read more ...A Mata-Ni-Pachedi Guide to Riding Like A Goddess
A Mata-Ni-Pachedi canvas can feature a dazzling array of goddesses. One sure-fire way to tell them apart? Through their animal friends
Read more ...Magnificent Beasts
Without animals, human history, culture and art would look very different. Whenever language has failed us, we have sought inspiration from these voiceless co-passengers hurtling with us through space on a blue planet. When we want to represent wealth and power beyond all imagining, we summon up the elephant. When we want to symbolise valour… Read more »
Read more ...Wild World: Animals in Contemporary Indian Art
Spirituality, sensuality and everything in between—what animals represent in a select few of Sarmaya’s contemporary art works
Read more ...March of the Mammoth, the Indian elephant’s story
No animal looms as large over the art, architecture, iconography, folklore and literature of the Indian subcontinent as Elephas maximus
Read more ...Bombaim, an island of dancing snakes & giant frogs
A sometimes quaint, sometimes bizarre view of 18th-century Bombay and its flora and fauna through our rare books collection
Read more ...Big Deals
Firetrucks & Super Cycles
Think Like A Museum
Stories & Histories Hidden In Mumbai’s Suburbs
This city is older than most of us would imagine and evidence of its ancient heritage is scattered through its bustling suburbs
Read more ...Delhi Durbar 1911: First Stop, Bombay
Scenes from a royal visit, complete with elaborate hats, waving crowds and a fake Gateway of India
Read more ...City of Stars
From a poor little island to the first city of India. We go back in time to visit the sleepy port town at the heart of the Bombay Presidency that would transform into the Mumbai of today. We bring you rare photographs, engravings and other precious archival material to piece together a picture of how… Read more »
Read more ...Vasai Fort: Remains Of The Day
Once a centre of power that empires fought to control, today this fort-city is a forest of echoes and shadows
Read more ...Urbs Prima In Indis: The Rise and Rise of the Bombay Presidency
In the late 19th century, the port town of Bombay began to gain economic and cultural cred, thanks to British imperialism fighting to assert its power. This is the story of a city finding its voice
Read more ...Gateway Of India: The Birth Of Photography In 19th-Century Bombay
Compelling portraits from our archive of a budding metropolis, its evolving skyline and fascinating people
Read more ...‘Andal – Poet, Saint, Lover’ by V Sriram
‘A History Of Desire In India’ by Madhavi Menon
Heights of Devotion: The Defining Features of Hindu Temple Architecture
One of the most striking ways in which temples in India announce their provenance is with the spires that loom over the rest of the structure—this is where a North-South divide makes itself felt
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