Eye on Indian museum shops
Clockwise from top left: MAP, Kamini Sawhney, Mehrangarh Fort, Sharan Apparao, Priya Paul, and Tarang Arora
Why are museum shops in India not as thoughtfully curated as those you find…
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Exit through the museum gift shop, suggests Anita Ratnam
Anita Ratnam
| Photo Credit: G. Venket Ram
My children and friends know that I must make that mandatory stop at the museum shop if I am travelling abroad. There is a deep local engagement…
The Indian museum makeover
Once upon a time, India was a merry museum of multitudinous histories, traditional treasures, collections of cultural and intellectual inheritance. And then, infiltrative deception and…
Sanjay Garg on ‘The Offbeat Sari’ and why India needs its own exhibition
Recently, while attending an event in Mallorca, Spain, I spotted a foreigner wearing a tulsi bead necklace. When I commented on how ‘Indian’ it looks, he immediately apologised to me and…
Kala Bhoomi tries a collab
There’s nothing quite like a big moment to help reset our ‘cultural’ memories. The G20 summit is turning out to be one such moment — turning the spotlight on our cultural economy and…