British historian, GM Trevelyan, once wrote, “There is nothing that more divides civilised from semi-savage man than to be conscious of our forefathers as they really were, and bit by bit to reconstruct the mosaic of the long forgotten past… How far can we know the real life of men in each successive age of the past?” It is for …
A new group exhibition with artworks from the likes of MF Husain, SH Raza, Ram Kumar and others will show a glimpse of the journey of Indian artists over the last 75 years. Organised by the Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata, the exhibition aims to provide a glimpse of the overall visual space shaped by 75 years of India's …
Modern democracies are erected upon the twin pillars of rights and representation. In the post-Independence era, while the JP movement presented an ideological critique of the excesses of the state and foregrounded the safeguarding of the rights of citizens, the parties born out of the movement gradually embraced the politics of ‘impoverished representation’, wherein who was being represented became the …
