Arts & Culture

Long before he was known as the “Tragedy King,” Dilip Kumar was just a bright young boy named Muhammad Yusuf Khan, growing...

Introduction Sunayani Devi (1875–1962) stands out as one of the earliest modern Indian women painters, a self‑taught artist from the...

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, is widely regarded as the "Father of Indian Cinema." A pioneer...

Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) was a towering figure in Tamil literature, widely revered as a Mahakavi ('Great Poet') and a fervent...

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...