Arts & Culture

Nil Darpan (1860) is a seminal Bengali social drama that exposed the coercion, debt-bondage, and violence inflicted by European indigo...

Introduction Painted in 1905 during the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore’s Bharat Mata is one of the earliest and most influential...

Contemporary Indian sculpture, evolving vigorously through the 20th and 21st centuries, reflects a rich interplay of global modernist ideas, indigenous...

Colonial architecture in India charts a fascinating arc from revivalist hybrids to streamlined modernity. The Indo-Saracenic mode fused Indian and...

Indian textiles are a living archive of techniques, trade routes, ritual aesthetics, and regional identities—ranging from lustrous silk sarees to...

Madhubani painting—also called Mithila art—is a vibrant folk tradition from the Mithila region of Bihar (and adjoining Nepal), famed for...

Step into the vibrant world of Rajasthani miniature painting, where tiny scraps of paper hold entire universes of emotion. Discover...

Step into the "Ghost City" of the Mughal Empire. Built by Emperor Akbar to celebrate a miracle, Fatehpur Sikri was...

The Mughal charbagh is a Persianate garden ideal translated into the Indian landscape: a geometrically enclosed, water-laced quadrilateral evoking the...

Explore the Khajuraho Temples, the zenith of Nagara architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Often misunderstood for their erotic...