by Ajapa Sharma | Apr 1, 2016 | Artist Spotlight
Raqib Shaw deftly manipulates industrial paint, oil, glitter and rhinestone to create phantasmagorical images of violence, debauchery, and paradisiacal spaces filled with mythical beasts and fantastical creatures. Born in 1974 in Calcutta, Shaw grew up in a...
by Ajapa Sharma | Feb 27, 2016 | Poetry
I. Entering Their Terrain Sometimes I walk licking my wounds into the territories of other women wolves. They greet me with a friendly grin as human wolves are trained to do but inside I know they are growling trying to shoo me away. As I amble on into their...
by Ajapa Sharma | Feb 27, 2016 | Artist Spotlight
In 1989, when Olivia Fraser moved to Delhi with her then fiancée and now husband Willam Darlymple, it was evident that all things in the universe were ultimately connected. Her kinsmen, William and James Baillie Fraser, famous Company School art commissioners who had...
by Ajapa Sharma | Feb 26, 2016 | Editorials
Mithila, the geographical space which spills across the messy border between Nepal and North India in Bihar, witnessed intense political churnings from mid 2015 to early 2016. On the Nepali side of the border, people of the plains in the small country sprung up in...
