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The History of Printmaking in India; How Printmaking Change Art-Practice

Do You Know?, News / June 1, 2023

Tsuktiben Jamir A hundred years after Guttenberg’s Bible was printed for the first time, printing arrived in India in 1556 as a colonial import. It was initially used as a medium for evangelistic goals and afterwards for advancing commercial and political objectives, shaping a new purpose. However, printing was only employed to replicate and reproduce …

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The Artistic Tagores and Their Global Phenomenon: Rabindranath, Abanindranath and Gaganendranath

Columns, Featured / May 16, 2023

Pratiksha Shome The Thakurs of Jorasako have been one of the most influential and celebrated families across Bengal. They made their way to social eminence in the eighteenth century first as employees to the European traders in Bengal and then in the early nineteenth century as business entrepreneurs, landholders, religious leaders, administrators, litterateurs, legal practitioners, …

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11 Fascinating Facts About Rabindranath Tagore That Made Him Nonpareil

Do You Know? / May 16, 2023

Pratiksha Shome “I don’t know who paints the picture of life into our embedded memories, but whoever it is, only paints. For he is ready with a brush to reprint every incident that happens in life, of course opting for what to keep and what not to.” This is how Tagore started his Autobiography “Jiban …

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Tickling the Funny Bone: Exploring Humour in Indian Art

#longread, Featured, Special Story / March 13, 2023

Vandana Shukla  Humour has been an essential element of art since the earliest times. From ancient cave paintings to contemporary installations, artists have used humour to engage, entertain, and enlighten their audiences. Once we take a closer glimpse into Indian art, we find out that it also hosts a rich history of humour that is …

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Mocking the white sahebs and thereafter

Columns / February 22, 2023

Vandana Shukla Through the cultural renaissance of India, especially in Bengal, artists were targeting social evils. Social satire emerged as a major theme in art, replacing the monkeys and donkeys, to tickle the laughing bone. The caricatures of Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938) place the opposites and the odd in the same frame. The Brahmins and rich …

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