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A walk down the queer side of Varanasi | Debashish Paul’s first solo exhibition

A walk down the queer side of Varanasi | Debashish Paul’s first solo exhibition

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“Varanasi feels like a very queer city to me,” says artist Debashish Paul, speaking of his adopted home where he presently lives and works since finishing his Masters’ in sculpture from the Banaras Hindu University in 2021. For his first solo exhibition, A Thousand Years of Dreaming, at Kolkata’s Emami Art, he channels “the playfulness, colours […]

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New Delhi | 1,000 ways to oneness at the India Art Fair

New Delhi | 1,000 ways to oneness at the India Art Fair

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As a witness to the India Art Fair (IAF) since its inception, I have a distinct memory from an earlier outtake — children peeking over the boundary wall of the fairgrounds, disrupting the manicured landscape with raw curiosity and unchecked laughter returned in equal compassion by waving visitors and participants. A performance of childlike spirit […]

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