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Kunal Ray

‘Forget all labels’: How Arjuna Gunarathne would like viewers to approach his first show in India

A conversation with the Sri Lanka-born painter who now lives in London.

Kunal Ray
· Nov 26, 2024 · 11:30 am
Don’t sneer at people taking selfies in museums. Their photographs can be art too

Museum art needs visitors’ participation. By taking a photograph with it, a visitor is collaborating with it, not disrespecting it.

Kunal Ray
· Mar 27, 2021 · 11:30 am
The Art of Solitude: This Malayalam song is the perfect antidote to anxiety when locked down

Bombay Jayashri sings ‘Ororo Novin Kanalilum’.

Kunal Ray
· Apr 14, 2020 · 11:30 am

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

A literature professor’s meditation on how a book can take us back home.

Kunal Ray
· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am