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

“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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Mumbai-based artist Sarika Bajaj uses feathers to articulate ecological concerns

Mumbai-based artist Sarika Bajaj uses feathers to articulate ecological concerns

Passage I | Photo Credit: Kalpit Gaonkar In Mumbai’s parks, abandoned buildings and intersections where birds are fed, a wayfaring multi-disciplinary artist from Bandra, Sarika Bajaj, hunts for discarded feathers. These are her tools of expressionism as well as a medium for articulating ecological concerns. “I have been working with feathers for nearly 12 years,” […]

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