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TopicJamini Roy

Topic: Jamini Roy

How Jamini Roy infused his art with India’s folk traditions

Roy’s work was instrumental in defining a unique identity for Indian art in postcolonial India. His early works, created post-1930s, featured religious icons from Hindu epics and mythology, Biblical themes and women.

Bengali artists & Jamini Roy collectors are at war. Smear campaign, jealousy or ignorance?

Art scholars say, 'The paintings are like Jamini Roys, but they are not Jamini Roys.' The slurs have incensed collector Kamal Parekh and members of Roy’s family.

Jamini Roy family says ‘prayers answered’. His house-museum a window to modern Bengali art

Jamini Roy's Kolkata studio getting a glitzy makeover—with a rotational show and cafe amid a modern ambience.

‘Abandon Santiniketan, stop being Gurudeva, devote yourself to painting’—Jamini Roy to Tagore

In 'Jamini Roy', Anuradha Ghosh explores the intimate relationship that the Bengali painter shared with Rabindranath Tagore.

On Camera

Pew’s religious diversity study is producing perverse results

Pew’s survey on religious diversity around the world is interesting, but simply lacks enough nuance to warrant serious consideration.

In 1st budget under BJP mayor in 44 yrs, BMC hikes outlay to Rs 81k crore, focus on big-ticket infra

India's richest civic body’s outlay is 8.77% higher than last year’s, with the biggest allocation being made for infra growth. BMC also proposed an AI boost to its service delivery.

What to expect on the defence front as Modi embarks on Israel visit, second since 2017

The two sides will sign a framework agreement on defence cooperation that will allow companies from both sides to collaborate deeper.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.