Yet not much is known about the life of the man who is arguably one of India's earliest 'modern' artists - he applied Western concepts of realism and portraiture to subjects that were unmistakably ...

Whether Ram, Vishnu, or Lakshmi, the heroic warriors of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Shakuntala of Kalidasa, the King of Baroda, or Swami Vivekananda, there is one name that brings them all under the ...

In 1907, barely a year after the death of the celebrated Raja Ravi Varma, the press in Madras was all praise for another artist with the same last name. As much as “the people of this country” were in ...

For Ketan Mehta, the main concern while making Rang Rasiya, his upcoming film on the life of the legendary 19th century For Ketan Mehta, the main concern while making Rang Rasiya, his upcoming film on ...