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Who is the gatecrasher? Artist Atul Dodiya’s Delhi exhibition will have you wondering

A parrot from an Indian painting crashes a French wedding, Zohran Mamdani elbows into Manhattan—artist Atul Dodiya's exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, on till 10 March, reimagines art history.

Artist Gogi Saroj Pal painted women adoring themselves. That was her rebellion

The late artist Gogi Saroj Pal fused the female form with Kamdhenu, reimagined Pahari nayikas as self-adoring, not waiting for a lover. ‘Whether people like it or not, do what you want.’

Bhupen Khakar came out through his paintings. He called them iconography of homosexual love

Bhupen Khakhar’s contributions as an artist and his advocacy for LGBTQ+ visibility have left an enduring imprint on the art world.

Rokeya Sultana, Bangladesh artist, explores sensuality, feminism. Indians can’t see her show

‘Madonna’ to ‘Relations’—themes Indians won’t get to see after Rokeya Sultana exhibition’s postponed. Her Bangladesh peers express shock.

Renaissance artist Raphael died of coronavirus-like infection, not syphilis, finds study

Raphael was believed to have contracted syphilis from his night outs visiting lovers, but a new study says he probably caught pneumonia from the cold.

M.F. Husain, the bold & prolific artist who started his journey painting movie billboards

ThePrint recalls the life of Maqbool Fida Husain, the controversies he courted, his love for Madhuri Dixit, and more.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.