Events of the week

Capturing diversity What: Diversity is the most common word used to describe India. Here’s a glimpse of India’s incredible religious traditions through a collection of 50 stunning photographs. Titled “Altars of Yearning: How India Prays”, it attempts to show people in moments that are private and vulnerable. Curated by Shripriya Dalmia Thirani, it depicts the […]

The fakir and the firangi

French artist Michel Testard is in Delhi with an exhibition of his paintings of India created over two decades With an engineering degree from Paris followed by an MBA from INSEAD, Michel Testard never knew he would end up as a painter in India. One visit to the country, and he was inspired to go […]

LEPROSY VIA THE LENS

An exhibition of photographs, 50 of them taken in India, tell the tale of patients who still carry a stigma because of their disease “I have to play dead so that my family can live in their village without stigma,” reads the quote of one of the many emotive photographs at the leprosy photo exhibition […]