The Alchemetic Journey of Clay In the landscape of contemporary Indian art, few practitioners command space and material with the raw, elemental authority of ceramic sculptor Vipul Kumar. Born in 1970 and trained under the rigorous mentorship of stalwarts like…

Sudhir J. Kumar: You graduated from Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata in 1986. How did Kolkata as a city shape the artist in you? Niladri: Kolkata at that time was a very liberal, progressive city—an environment highly conducive…

The Sanskriti Lecture Series, presented by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), recently hosted an evening dedicated to Bengal’s extraordinary terracotta temple heritage through the photographic vision…