‘Ganga’s Daughters’ is the very concise title that the photographer/artist Sheba Chhachhi has given to an expansive body of images. Chhachhi’s artistic practice, going back more than two decades, encompasses journalistic reportage, documentary constructions, activist propaganda, poignantly personal portraiture, multi-media theatrics, and even revelatory exegesis ‘The complexity of meanings thus produced by interpenetrating forms and…

“The first function of a mythology is to reconcile waking consciousness to the mysterium tremendum et fascinans of this universe as it is: the second being to render an interpretive total image of the same, as known to contemporary consciousness. Shakespeare’s definition of the function of his art, ‘to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up…

Subodh Gupta’s recent works portray objects and images of indecisive moments and cultural fluctuations. During the past decade, his art employed certain clichéd emblems of India: the cow, stainless steel kitchen articles, the scooter, cow dung cakes, his own persona as a man from a village in Bihar. All along, Gupta’s purpose was two-fold, to …