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    Articles by Noor Anand Chawla

    Drawing Room: Yasha Shrivastava on Bhupen Khakhar’s polarising art

    Bhupen Khakhar’s Lost Souls (1993) features naked humans, birds and creatures, who all seem shackled.
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    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 15:40 IST

    Drawing Room: Ayuesh Agarwal on Varad Bang’s intimate portraits

    Varad Bang’s The Morning After captures an overwhelming sense of solitude. (PHOTO COURTESY: PRISTINE CONTEMPORARY)
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    Updated on Sep 4, 2026 12:00 IST

    Kick Back: Janmoni Konwar lost her home, but not her fight for gold

    Janmoni Konwar won gold at the All India Independence Cup Karate Championship in August. (INSTAGRAM/@WORLDKARATEFEDERATION)
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    Updated on Sep 4, 2026 11:44 IST

    Drawing Room: Jyotee Kolte on Prakash Waghmare’s vibrant abstract art

    Prakash Waghmare includes the elements: Earth, water, air, fire and sky in his abstract art.
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    Updated on Aug 21, 2026 14:36 IST

    Drawing Room: Vandana Kothari on K G Subramanyan’s striking murals

    K G Subramanyan’s black-and-white murals cover the design department building at Kala Bhavana art school.
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    Updated on Aug 7, 2026 13:00 IST

    Drawing Room: Manjot Kaur’s paintings birth rebellion and entwined truths

    Kaur’s Goddesses Birthing Ecosystems series questions what it means to be a mother.
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    Updated on Jul 24, 2026 08:48 IST

    Drawing Room: Vinu VV’s wooden sculptures showcase the trauma of casteism

    Vinu VV’s Ochhakal, or Reverberations, depicts the cruel treatments meted out to Dalits.
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    Updated on Jul 10, 2026 12:17 IST

    Rajnesh Kumar on Bikash Bhattacharjee’s haunting works

    Bikash Bhattacharjee painted dolls dangling from cable wires or playing dead under a spotlit stage. (ASTAGURU AUCTION HOUSE)
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    Updated on Jun 26, 2026 11:54 IST

    Despair, then hope: Making sense of A Ramachandran’s sumptuous art

    The Monsoon Flowers, made in 2014, is packed with life. Every element is alive and interconnected. (HT Archives)
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    Updated on Jun 12, 2026 12:39 IST

    Drawing Room: Zoya Chaudhary decodes Lubna Chowdhary’s cross-cultural art

    Lubna Chowdhary’s Serial Structures features hand-glazed tiles arranged so as to create a metropolitan cityscape.
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    Updated on May 29, 2026 10:43 IST

    Drawing Room: Siri Devi Khandavilli on Himmat Shah’s thought-provoking art

    Himmat Shah’s terracotta heads feel like they were unearthed from an archaeological site.
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    Updated on May 15, 2026 10:57 IST

    Drawing Room: Salman Toor’s art captures what it means to be an outsider

    Salman Toor’s Bar Boy (2019) features a Brown man in a room full of White people, who is isolated from the party. (© SALMAN TOOR; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST; LUHRING AUGUSTINE, NEW YORK, AND THOMAS DANE GALLERY. PHOTO: FARZAD OWRANG)
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    Updated on May 11, 2026 08:32 IST

    Drawing Room: Vasundhara Prakash on Nitesh Mohanty’s vulnerable photobook

    Nitesh Mohanty’s 2020 photobook Nowhere / Now Here is a chronicle of his time as caregiver to his late wife, Diya.
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    Updated on Apr 17, 2026 13:04 IST

    Drawing Room: Shailesh BR on Susanta Mandal’s moving art

    In Hard Copy, Susanta Mandal casts light and shadows on to images through a Victorian-style projector. (VADEHRA ART GALLERY)
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    Updated on Apr 3, 2026 12:47 IST

    Drawing Room: Lokesh Khodke’s comics make you question caste and comedy

    In his comic Chudail, Lokesh Khodke presents the witch as a skinny, naked figure, hungry for power.
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    Updated on Mar 20, 2026 11:06 IST

    Drawing Room: Paradise is lost and found in Raqib Shaw’s art

    Raqib Shaw’s Horse Catcher (2013) shows a crumbling building and horses falling from the sky. (PHOTOS COURTESY RAQIB SHAW)
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    Updated on Mar 6, 2026 10:54 IST

    Drawing Room: Gourmoni Das spots sacred themes in Anant Nikam’s works

    Anant Nikam’s 2024 installation Transmit resembles a plinth holding candles lit by devotees.
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    Updated on Feb 20, 2026 09:48 IST

    Hemmed in: Is all Indian handloom luxe now?

    Handlooms are more pricey now. But it’s not benefitting the artisans as much as you think it is. (CREATED BY LEELA USING GEMINI)
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    Updated on Feb 6, 2026 19:23 IST

    Drawing Room: Why Pinaki Ranjan Mohanty loves Jagannath Panda’s art

    Jagannath Panda’s 2009 sculpture, The Being, shows a rhinoceros fighting against encroaching urbanism.
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    Updated on Feb 6, 2026 09:08 IST

    Drawing Room: Why Olympe Ramakrishna is a fan of Rithika Merchant’s art

    Merchant’s works such as The Inner Sanctum (2022) build feminine narratives and inner worlds.
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    Updated on Jan 23, 2026 10:57 IST

    Drawing room: Why Hasnain Soomar loves Gourmoni Das’s swathes of fabric

    Gourmoni Das’s gently swaying fabrics can parallel the ebb and flow of life. (IMAGES COURTESY DOT LINE SPACE ART FOUNDATION)
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    Updated on Jan 9, 2026 10:01 IST

    Drawing Room: Hemangini Maharaul on Nikhil Chopra’s art in motion

    Nikhil Chopra’s Lands, Waters & Skies was performed over nine days at the Met in New York. (PHOTO COURTESY CHATTERJEE AND LAL)
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    Updated on Dec 26, 2025 12:40 IST

    Drawing Room: What B Pradhan sees in Nandan Ghiya’s installations

    Nandan Ghiya’s collages, such as Interdimensional Adaptations, create a new archive of the present. (SAKSHI GALLERY)
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    Updated on Dec 12, 2025 10:40 IST

    Plot twist: Fan fiction is back. But will writers win against AI?

    Movies such as Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara are getting the fan fiction treatment on online forums. (EDITED USING GEMINI)
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    Updated on Dec 5, 2025 12:00 IST

    Drawing Room: Why Prajakta Potnis’s art gives Palak Modi chills

    In Capsule 202 (2016), Prajakta Potnis captures the inside of a refrigerator, alien and isolated.
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    Updated on Nov 28, 2025 11:43 IST

    Drawing Room: Wahida Ahmed on Gopi Gajwani’s delicate abstracts

    In Gajwani’s compositions, dots, strokes and negative spaces become instruments of rhythm and stillness.
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    Updated on Nov 14, 2025 10:41 IST

    Drawing Room: Shrimanti Saha on Nilima Sheikh’s unsettling art

    Nilima Sheikh’s Construction Site reflects the cycle of destruction and renewal in Kashmir since 1947. (CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD)
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    Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:31 IST

    Drawing Room: Juhikadevi Bhanjdeo on Gopa Trivedi’s miniature-style art

    Gopa Trivedi’s Monsters of Our Making-II series is simultaneously elegant and disturbing. (LATITUDE 28)
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    Updated on Oct 17, 2025 12:51 IST

    Drawing Room: Virenpratap Singh Bhaika on Japani Shyam’s modern Gond art

    Japani Shyam’s art depicts the forest as a living cosmos where tigers, birds and trees flow into one another.
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    Updated on Oct 3, 2025 11:49 IST

    2000s kids, assemble: Time to relive your core memories

    How low did low-rise jeans go? Let’s just say we can recall some people’s buttcracks from memory. (ILLUSTRATION BY JAYANTO)
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    Updated on Oct 3, 2025 11:44 IST
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