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Air India’s Maharaja: A Regal Evolution with a Touch of Pakistan’s Influence

Columns, Featured /

Birth of an Iconic Mascot The distinctive persona of the Air India Maharaja, once a mere potbellied mascot, has journeyed through time, evolving with each destination and assignment. Conceived by Air India’s commercial director Bobby Kooka and art director Jal Cowasji, the Maharaja first materialized in 1946 as a representation of the comfort and luxury […]

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Artworks of creepy crawlies on an Air India aircraft at Kochi Muziris Biennale by G.S. Smitha

Artist Profile, Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Rajesh Kumar The creepy-crawlies are no longer just a part of the soil, all ignored and disgust upon, they are now a major part of the paintings by Smitha GS. The paintings are full of creepy crawlies and that’s what she loves. You name them, there they are, crawling of flying all over her canvas.

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NGMA will house the precious collection of Air India artworks

News /

The National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA) will receive Air India’s precious collection of almost 4,000 paintings and sculptures by well-known painters for preservation and public display. In this regard, the airline and the NGMA inked a memorandum of understanding in the presence of Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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That\’s surreal! (When Dalí created a custom objet d\’art for Air India in the 1960s)

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Last week, debt-laden national carrier Air India was sold to Tata Sons, the country\’s oldest and largest conglomerate. Things came full circle as it was the Tata Group that had founded the airline in 1932 and then lost it to nationalisation in 1953 — and now in 2021, emerged as the winning bidder for India’s

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