Arts & Culture

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...

Rajasthani miniature painting flourished across the Rajput courts of northwestern India, evolving rich local idioms that captured love, devotion, valor,...

Fatehpur Sikri, perched on a ridge near Agra, is Emperor Akbar’s audacious experiment in city-making—a 16th-century Mughal capital conceived as...

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

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments in Madhya Pradesh embodies a rare synthesis of sensuality and spirituality within the Nagara school...

The Ajanta and Ellora Caves are timeless testaments to India’s artistic genius, spiritual depth, and architectural mastery. Carved painstakingly from...