Mary, Nirmala Matha, Devi: The link across religion through iconography and festivals in Goa

The worship of the mother goddess is deeply embedded in the indigenous belief system at all levels of the social formation in the coastal state.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Jul 27, 2022 · 08:30 am

In ‘Blurring Boundaries’ virtual studio, traditional art practices reimagined for the Covid-19 era

The project has brought together six artists together in a digital environment of conversation and collaboration.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Oct 21, 2020 · 11:30 am

This anthology opposes the delusional and self-destructive tyranny of the vampiric global system

Ranjit Hoskote’s foreward to a collection of writings from India on climate change.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Oct 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Hand on the placard, fist around the stone’: Five poems by Ranjit Hoskote viewing a ‘nation’s fate’

‘Sing, you tell yourself.’

Ranjit Hoskote

· Jul 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The Art of Solitude: Ranjit Hoskote considers the prayerful joy of ‘Annunciation’ during lockdown

‘It has always brought me a still, deep inwardness.’

Ranjit Hoskote

· Mar 26, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Resistance: What strange things will happen in India tonight?: A ghazal by Ranjit Hoskote

The poet has some questions.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Jan 01, 2020 · 08:15 pm

Mehlli Gobhai (1931-2018): An art of refusal and consecration

The painter challenged us to home in on light within the darkness of the vividly anxious yet promising here and now.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Sep 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

A rare look at the early works of VN Jyothi Basu, one of India’s most accomplished artists

The exhibition ‘Portraits and Landscapes on Paper’ comprises Basu’s works from the 1980s and ’90s, many of which are prescient of our world.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Aug 17, 2018 · 11:30 am

Jonahwhale: Five poems from Ranjit Hoskote’s new book that listens to the histories of the seas

‘The ocean offers us an education in anamnesia, the struggle against forgetting…’

Ranjit Hoskote

· Jan 13, 2018 · 07:30 am

Sakti Burman: The artist who’s the heir to the poets who composed Ramayana and Mahabharata

As a storyteller, Burman takes his place in a millennia-long genealogy of fabulists.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Nov 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm

In Gieve Patel’s new exhibition, you can see the vulnerable figure on the sidelines of society

Despite their seeming recognisability, the figures in Patel’s ‘Footboard Rider’ remain enigmatic.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Mar 11, 2017 · 03:30 pm

An Indian artist is using discarded household gadgets to create a theatre of dreams and aspirations

Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s workspace is more laboratory or factory floor than studio.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Feb 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm