Paradox of Distance and Writing on Art in the Contemporary Period
Published on September 9, 2026
The layers of reds are stacked upon each other, wrestling until they seem to discover a place to repose. Is it the way they accumulate that lends the impression of a drain or does the familiarity of movement creates an impression of one?
Foreign Returned
Published on September 8, 2026
The Indian music press, it seems, does not know whose taste it has borrowed. Taste arrives through osmosis and then solidifies into something like instinct.
Notes on a Gesture
Published on September 8, 2026
In my practice-based research into feminist resistances captured through moving image technologies, I work with lost archival footage of the choreographer/dancer Chandralekha and her radical reframing of the gesture of Namaskar within the repertoires of classical Indian dance.
When Criticism Becomes a Creative Practice
Published on July 3, 2026
What happens when criticism evolves from a tool of judgment into a creative practice that extends the life of a work?
On Refusing to Separate Art from Institutions
Published on July 3, 2026
Through two case studies of structural injustice in the Indian art world, this essay challenges art criticism that ignores institutional contexts and calls for a writing practice that accounts for labor conditions and systemic power.






