While the 'naked dress' returned to the Met, Karan Johar dominated the conversation with an opulent tribute to India’s most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma.
Raja Ravi Varma's Yashoda and Krishna became the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold at auction. His mythic realism, once dismissed as ‘calendar art’, is the centrepiece of his resurgence.
Ravi Varma imported machinery for steam-driven presses from Germany in 1892 and employed the help of two German litho-transfer artists to install and operate them.
The ‘Prints of the Divine’ exhibition, on till 31 March 2025, brings together over a hundred rare oleographs, lithographic plates, and postcards by Raja Ravi Varma and his contemporary MV Dhurandhar.
If India is committed to being a manufacturing alternative to China, it must first ensure that the competition it enters is transparent, measurable, and governed by universally applicable rules.
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It’s a perfectly reasonable presumption that Modi will be around for a significant enough time for us to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead. I will list five.
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