• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
    • Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
    • Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
    • A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
    • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): Five things to know about one of Africa’s greatest ever writers
    • How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
    • A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
    • Elon Musk quits Trump administration
    • ‘Criminal Justice – A Family Matter’ review: All in a day’s work for Pankaj Tripathi’s Madhav Mishra
    • People of PoK our family, will return to India voluntarily: Rajnath Singh
    • NGOs that receive foreign funding cannot publish news content, says home ministry
    • In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

Folk art

  • Moving from scrolls to key chains, an art form from Telangana fights to stay relevant

    Moving from scrolls to key chains, an art form from Telangana fights to stay relevant

    Arti Das
    · May 19, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • If this rare Kolkata museum shuts down, Bengal will lose a part of its soul

    If this rare Kolkata museum shuts down, Bengal will lose a part of its soul

    Sujaan Mukherjee
    · Feb 26, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Frogs have an abiding presence in Indian art and mythology. Then why don’t we try to conserve them?

    Frogs have an abiding presence in Indian art and mythology. Then why don’t we try to conserve them?

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Feb 03, 2018 · 03:30 pm
  • The next generation of India’s folk artists is breaking from the traditions of their parents

    The next generation of India’s folk artists is breaking from the traditions of their parents

    Chanpreet Khurana
    · Jan 29, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Phad paintings: Rajasthan’s travelling temples are fading away after half a millennium

    Phad paintings: Rajasthan’s travelling temples are fading away after half a millennium

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Oct 14, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • Watch: The story of New Delhi’s puppeteers who have been hit hard by a demolition drive in the city

    Watch: The story of New Delhi’s puppeteers who have been hit hard by a demolition drive in the city

    Venkataraghavan Rajagopalan
    · Sep 27, 2017 · 09:00 am
  • Sex selection, Bollywood, urban chaos: Madhubani art is finding new themes after decades

    Sex selection, Bollywood, urban chaos: Madhubani art is finding new themes after decades

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Aug 03, 2017 · 01:30 pm
  • Photos: A pattachitra artist draws from Hindu mythology without depicting anything religious

    Photos: A pattachitra artist draws from Hindu mythology without depicting anything religious

    Aakash Karkare
    · Apr 12, 2017 · 03:30 pm
  • Indian folk art meets Picasso in an Assamese artist's latest work

    Indian folk art meets Picasso in an Assamese artist's latest work

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Oct 26, 2016 · 12:30 pm