a two-year old magazine that charted the growing popularity of postcards as art and business. Frederick Hartmann, a former indigo planter in India, was the man reputed to have forced the British ...

The paintings are set to go up for auction for the first time on 12 June in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

Long before social media and emails, artists of the Bengal School of Art in Shantiniketan used painted postcards to stay connected. Between the 1940s and 1960s, they exchanged intimate messages ...

It was a blast from the past in the Capital at a recent exhibition titled Bengal School Painted Postcards which was presented ...

The absence of any information about the artists along with their subjects — often ethnic ‘types’ — has led to such postcard art being sundrily dismissed ... usually focused on Indian ‘tribes and ...

Last month, India’s cultural season culminated with the largest and most international edition of the India Art Fair since its founding in 2008. Over 120 exhibitors, including 26 newcomers ...

India — got a fleeting glimpse of this Chennai beach coming to life in the morning, through Dr Shanmugam’s postcards. Each featuring an illustration of the sea, reimagined from her daily auto ...

Its triumph lies in its astute traversal of the terrain of art and geopolitics ... in effect ending post-independence civil liberties—and India’s May 1998 nuclear tests in Pokhran.