Artists & Cultural Icons

Every morning for most of his ninety years, Ustad Bismillah Khan walked to the Vishwanath Temple on the banks of...

In the early twentieth century, a dance form that had sustained the spiritual and artistic life of Tamil Nadu's temples...

S.H. Raza spent decades painting in Paris before he found the single image that would define everything he had been...

Abanindranath Tagore looked at the oil paintings filling the walls of colonial Calcutta and made a deliberate decision to turn...

The brilliant poet Rabindranath Tagore found a new voice in his old age when his pen suddenly stopped writing and...

Ramkinkar Baij grew up in a small town in Bankura, the son of a barber, with no inherited wealth and...

Jamini Roy had everything a commercial artist could ever want, but his heart felt completely empty. He made a brave...

She never went to art school, never sought fame, and painted in the quiet corners of a bustling household. Yet,...

He saw a silent film about Jesus Christ and wondered, "Can we not see our own Krishna and Rama on...

He was a poet who wrote with fire, a journalist who defied the British Empire, and a visionary who dreamt...