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Friday, January 23, 2026
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Topic: DAG

How Mumbai evolved, and those who influenced it: DAG CEO Ashish Anand

From everyday Mumbaikars to Parsi leaders, the new DAG exhibition 'Face to Face,' traces Mumbai's history and will be on display from 8-11 January at the Taj Mahal Palace.

The shifting phases of Delhi’s Mandi House—Institution, Memory, Resistance

In DAG festival, the city stood transformed into a mosaic of memory far greater than the litany of problems that structure life today.

What’s your image of Europeans in colonial Calcutta? Think beyond mansions & clubs

The long-forgotten ‘marginal Europeans’ of colonial Calcutta took centre stage at ‘The White Other,’ part of DAG’s City as a Museum festival. Among them was the Flemish artist FB Solvyns.

13 years after MF Husain’s death, his truth is out and his art safe to be celebrated

An exhibition at Delhi’s DAG World revisits MF Husain’s paintings a decade after his death in 2011 in London. He left India in 2006 amid hundreds of legal cases, virulent abuse, hate speech, assault, and a climate of fear.

Indian art abroad struggles to come home—tax trouble, red tape, and endless wait at customs

The government’s recent decision to revoke a customs duty exemption on Indian art was the central topic of a panel discussion at DAG in Delhi this week.

British photographers showed sites of 1857 violence, without people. They erased Indians

A DAG exhibit, on display until 12 October in Delhi, reminds people how photographing is often ‘an act of staging reality’.

Madras artists were latecomers to Indian modern art. A Bengal painter & a critic pushed them

A new exhibition at the DAG in New Delhi titled ‘Madras Modern: Regionalism and Identity’ chronicles the journey of 'Late Moderns'. They were largely under-represented in Indian art.

Kali and her avatars went beyond India – on Japanese matchboxes, German porcelain

Some 19th-century ‘Reverse Glass’ paintings from China show a blue-skinned Jagaddhatri, and a Mahisasurmardini holding the decapitated head of a distinctly East Asian Mahishasur.

Gopal Ghose was lauded by Nehru, Tagore. His art depicted Bengal famine, Partition and grief

An exhibition titled ‘Flower of Fire: The Life and Art of Gopal Ghose’s was unveiled at the DAG gallery in New Delhi to showcase the artist's work from the 1930s till his final days.

How did East India Company use Mughal artists for commerce? William Dalrymple has answers

Historian William Dalrymple gave a talk to art lovers at DAG about an orphaned world of Mughal paintings that embarrassed the British and was dismissed by the Indians.

On Camera

Controversial dog-walker IAS Sanjeev Khirwar is back in Delhi. What happened to his wife?

In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.

IndiGo profit plunges 78% as Dec meltdown with 3k flight cancellations takes a toll

Net income for InterGlobe Aviation Ltd slipped 78 percent to Rs 5.5 billion for the three months ended Dec 31 compared with the year-ago period.

Rafale saga: 25 yrs of detours, deadlocks & political hesitation. Now IAF getting what it always wanted

Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance. 

Pakistan se azaadi. Grow up India, stop giving it prime real estate in your psyche

Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.