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Monsoon Ragas in Painting: Megh Malhar through Miniature Paintings and Poetry of Kalidasa

The realm of Indian Art and Literature is profusely amalgamated, interwoven and innately connected. The translation of poetries into paintings was a profound form of art associating words with their visuals. Around 200 BCE, Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra, a compilation of Music, Dance, and Drama literature, intrinsically characterizes emotions as Rasas. He enunciated them into eight […]

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Art and Climate Change in India: Who Are the Climate Migrants, Who Affected Most?

Climate change and Global warming are not recent challenges faced by the whole planet and humanity. Human history remains a history of overcoming challenges and managing obscurity. Humankind is living in a crisis that can no prolonged be neglected. We all know about the changes we bring that impact our living space and destroy our

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Street Art as a Political Tool in Indian Context

This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself.  Kritika Verma This chapter focuses on one issue in the wide-ranging, contemporary debates on the relationship between art and politics: philosophy’s role in these debates and its contribution. In the background,

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The Role of Environmentally Engaged Urban Street Art

This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself.  Kritika Verma It is a dizzying prospect to account for the wide variety of individuals that make up the audience of urban street art, “the only immediate feedback the artists get

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The Current Role of Urban Street Art in India 

This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself. Read the first part of this research article here: Street Art and Graffiti In Indian Public Spaces. Read the Second article: Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in India. The third article: The

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Spatial Interaction of Street Art and Graffiti

Kritika Verma This long-read-research article about Street Art- Graffiti in the Indian context brings multi-layer ideas about social life and street art as a context itself. Read the first part of this research article here: Street Art and Graffiti In Indian Public Spaces. Read the Second article: Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in

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The Influence of Medieval Sanskrit Text From India in This Painting

Kritika Verma This Article is the second part of research on 17th Century Krishna Leela’s painting; it illustrates the text of devotional songs, a genre known as Krishnalila. The first part of this Article: The Hidden Metaphors in the 17th Century Krishna Leela Painting from Nepal A third aspect of reading and separating an entirely

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The Hidden Metaphors in the 17th Century Krishna Leela Painting from Nepal

Kritika Verma This was my first official internship in a different country, Nepal, at the Patan Museum, Lalitpur, Nepal. The Patan Museum was inaugurated in 1997 by his Late Majesty Bir Bikram Shah. The museum quadrangle, known as Keshav Chowk, takes its name from the temple in the centre of the central courtyard and is

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Object Life in the Past: Things That Change Our Perspective

Krispin Joseph PX Addressing the question of the past stories and events around things is an exciting and essential subject in the art world. This question belongs to the stories and lives of our past generations. Some objects are available here, and we need to understand their social life and history.  The biography of a

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