Miniature

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note | By Bhavna Kakar

My Name is Red

Guest Editor’s Note | By Waswo X. Waswo

The Dilemma of the Single-Hair Miniaturists and the Sourcing of Traditional Brushes

Essay | By Waswo X. Waswo

Exoticism Twice: The Political Life of Contemporary Miniature Whose Revival is it? Exoticism and the Contemporary Miniature Canon

Essay | By Khushboo Jain

Kangra Painting and Imperial Ambition Formation of a Court Language in the Reign of Sansar ChandKangra Painting and Imperial Ambition Formation of a Court Language in the Reign ofKangra Painting and Imperial Ambition Formation of a Court Language in the Reign of Sansar Chand Sansar Chand

Essay | By Sarang Sharma

At the Confluence of Tirtha and Yatra Vision and Sacred Geography in the Kanchana Chitra Ramayana

Essay | By Parul Singh

Warp and Weft The Bikaner Art of Mahaveer Swami

Essay | By Sushma K. Bahl

The Cloud Messenger Yugal Kishore Sharma’s Meghdootam at the Art Institute of Chicago

Essay | By Madhuvanti Ghose

The Chinnamasta Image in Art Goddesses, Death and Nurturance

Essay | By Mary Storm

Following the Footsteps of Manaku Reimagining the Divine in the Musavvari of Murad Khan Mumtaz

Essay | By Vinit Vyas

Dreams, Demons, and Desires The Art of Waseem Ahmed

Essay | By Quddus Mirza

Issanama The Life of Jesus from an Eastern Perspective

Essay | By Isabella Nardi

Samudra Mathana Churning of the Ocean of Milk

Essay | By Desmond Lazaro

Anindita Bhattacharya: The Illuminated Margin

Essay | By Yashodhara Dalmia

Personal Mythologies

Essay | By Lina Vincent

Udaipur: A Forgotten Art Hub

Essay | By Waswo X. Waswo

Gopa Trivedi: The Meticulous Storyteller

Essay | By Sonika Soni

The Influential Four From Mastery to Creativity

Essay | By Rabeya Jalil

When East Meets West Reinterpreting Indian Miniature Painting Traditions

Essay | By Aleksandra Matic Sanchiher

Art Muscle

Essay | By Michiel Baas

Miniature as Video The Times Square Installation of Eeman Masood

Essay | By Priyanka Khanna

Deeper than Blood On Carmine, and Other Reds

Essay | By Gopa Trivedi

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Annelie Solis

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Ekta Singha

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Farhat Ali

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Jethro Buck

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Keerat Kaur

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Manisha Gera Baswani

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Manjit Bawa

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Maryam Baniasadi

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Murad Khan Mumtaz

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Artist Intervention | By Piyush Sharma

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Rohit Chawla

Muraqqa Section

Artist Intervention | By Shankar Sharma

Echoes of Ephemera: A Review of Party is Elsewhere

Review | By Noor Anand Chawla

Flying in Each-Others Orbit

Review | By Georgina Maddox

Wanderers after Ghostly Concrete

Review | By Shruti Ramalingaiah

Sharp objects: The Last Rust by Archana Hande

Review | By Neerja Deodhar

On Unequal Burdens: Waste and Toxicity in Navjot Altaf’s New Works

Review | By Zeenat Nagree

Witnessing the Insignificant: Reba Hore’s Modernism of Attention

Review | By Epsita Halder

At the Limits of Human Lives: Archiving on a Minor Note

Review | By Ranu Roychoudhuri

The Body of the Thing

Review | By Jungshinungsang Imti

How Bitter Language Has Become: On Shilpa Gupta’s we last met in the mirror

Review | By Najrin Islam

Narratives yet to unfold - at 40 we are still Young!

Review | By Sumesh Sharma

Flora Indica: Recovering Lost Stories from Kew’s Indian Gardens

Interview | By Emilia Terracciano

Liquid Bodies.Dissident Borders

Book Review | By Dilpreet Bhullar

Inhabiting Contradiction Reflections from a Curator’s Forum

Report | By Tanya Dutt

Moving Together Tropical Choreographies at the Curators’ Hub

Report | By Upasana Das

TAKE on Art: Art Writers’ Award 2025

Report | By Sudeshna Rana

The Arts Family: Building a Global Community for Contemporary South Asian Art

Report | By Stephen Snoddy

Art Alive Gallery: A Brush with History

Report | By Kishore Singh

Raghu Rai

Obituary | By Ina Puri

Fly on the Wall

Photo Essay | By Manisha Gera Baswani

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