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War and Diasporic Identity in Samar Hussaini’s Art: Threads of Memory

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Samar Hussaini Palestinian Art: War, Memory and Identity In a world where conflict frequently shapes society, Samar Hussaini Palestinian art offers a powerful perspective on War, identity, displacement, and memory. War continues to play a major role in political, historical, artistic, and cultural narratives. Ongoing geopolitical concerns and conflicts in the Middle East remind us […]

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Kulpreet Singh’s “Extinction Archive” and the Aesthetics of Loss: Archiving the Vanishing

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Kulpreet Singh Extinction Archive Art and Extinction Kulpreet Singh Extinction Archive: Climate Crisis Through Art explores the growing crisis of biodiversity loss through a powerful installation at India Art Fair. Using rice paper, pesticide stains and endangered species, the artwork transforms extinction into a haunting visual archive. In the video featured by KNMA, artist Kulpreet

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Reading Marginality: Decoding Palani Kumar’s Photo Activism

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Palani Kumar

Palani Kumar and Social Documentation Photography has always remained a “photojournalistic” or “news photography” medium. However, Palani Kumar is a Tamil photographer and activist. He uses photography to document marginalised communities and amplify their voices. For him, photography is more than an aesthetic medium. Through Palani Kumar’s efforts, underprivileged populations are becoming more visible. He

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Louis Kahn: Combining Modernity and Tradition

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Louis Kahn Buildings Louis Kahn Buildings are celebrated for their monumental forms, timeless materials, and thoughtful use of light and space. From the Salk Institute to IIM Ahmedabad, Kahn created some of the most influential architectural works of the 20th century. Moreover, his designs combined modernism with ancient architectural principles. As a result, his buildings

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From Colonialism to Waste Colonialism: The Hidden Cost of Fast Fashion

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Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku

Understanding Waste Colonialism Waste Colonialism describes the unequal movement of waste from the Global North to the Global South. Colonialism once exploited land, labour, and resources for profit. Today, similar patterns continue through environmental and economic systems. Used clothing has become one of the clearest examples of this unequal exchange. Colonialism was a profitable mission.

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Empire of the Coin: Aatish Khobragade’s Sculptural Allegory of Labour and Capital

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Empire of the Coin and the Weight of Labour At Mandapo, the artist-led alternative space in Mumbai’s Fort district, Aatish Khobragade’s solo exhibition Empire of the Coin explores labour, value, and the emotional weight of survival under capitalism. Curated by art writer and editor Sushama Sabnis, the exhibition brings together large-format circular paintings and a

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Lines of Trauma: Mapping Partition Through the Body and the Border

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In 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister who had never visited India before, was commissioned to delineate a line bifurcating British India. He was handed outdated maps and obsolete census data to divide the country primarily based on religious demographics. A few weeks later, on August 17th, the Radcliffe Line was announced, formalising the

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Art After Exile: Reading Zhanna Kadyrova’s Stone War Bread, ‘Palianytsia’

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Kadyrova Zhanna

We are currently in the midst of many wars. While the Russia-Ukrainian war that started on February 24, 2022, is ongoing, America and Israel together attacked Iran, while Israel’s attacks on Palestinians continue. The response given by writer Arundhati Roy to the question of how to look at the war is noteworthy: “Once weapons were

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