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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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Caught between Sanskar and sexual freedom, porn comic character Savita Bhabhi gets many lives and sentences!

Krispin Joseph PX Savita Bhabhi has been a hot topic in India since its publication in 2008; Bhabhi is a pornographic-cartoon character, a desired housewife having a sexual relationship with many people. Anonymous activists in India published this Character through a comic strip medium. This comic is widely celebrated and circulated in India, and it

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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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Rodin’s Hands: Portraits of Emotion and the Power of Gesture

Iftikar Ahmed Auguste Rodin, the renowned sculptor, delved into the expressive potential of the human figure, emphasising what he called the “body gesture.” According to Rodin, it was not just the face that conveyed thoughts and emotions; rather, various body parts such as hands, arms, and torsos could encapsulate the essence of feeling. Amongst the

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Historical Background of Graffiti and Street Art in India

Kritika Verma I knew little about street art or traditional Graffiti when I began working on this thesis. I needed to immerse myself in the street art scene to understand it from an insider’s perspective. This method helped me better understand the relationships between individuals, art, and public spaces. I began communicating with street artists

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Rare Disease Could not Stop this 23-Year-Old from Creating Art and Earning through them

Tsuktiben Jamir A 23-year-old with a rare disease uses art as a form of expression and this has led her to cater to international customers as well. Radhika JA from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu was diagnosed at a very young age with brittle bone disease. It is a cruel disease that renders a person susceptible to

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