BOOKS & ART

Thapar Gallery presents Memory | Remains , an exhibition bringing together works by Krishen Khanna and Prabhakar Kolte , on view until 28 February 2026. The exhibition approaches Indian modernism through two distinct artistic practices that continue to engage with memory, history, and everyday experience. Rather than positioning the artists as canonical figures, Memory | Remains treats modernism as an ongoing and evolving inquiry. Through Khanna’s figurative language and Ko

At 47A Khotachi Wadi, the quiet heritage precinct becomes a stitched archive of the city in Echoes of Bombay , a hand-embroidery exhibition by Kailash Poojary, on view from 13 February to 15 March. The space transforms into a tactile map of Bombay, where architecture, labour, faith, and memory are rendered not in stone or ink, but patiently in thread. Conceived over a year, Echoes of Bombay reimagines the city’s layered past through a series of hand-embroidered works that tr

Lenscape Kerala, the national travelling photography exhibition currently touring across India, arrives in Mumbai from 12 to 14 February 2026 at Jehangir Art Gallery . Presented as a visual journey through one of India’s most layered regions, the exhibition brings together photography, travel, and cultural documentation in a concise, accessible format. Featuring 100 curated photographs by 10 leading travel and media photographers from across India , Lenscape Kerala offers a

Gallery Dotwalk inaugurates its new space in Defence Colony, New Delhi with Drifting Through Quiet Veins , an immersive exhibition that reimagines the gallery as a sensorial environment where sound, material, and image converge. The exhibition brings together eight contemporary artists whose practices move beyond conventional studio formats into experiential encounters shaped by memory, labour, landscape, and embodied presence. The exhibition features Abdulla PA, Amjum Rizve,

This winter, Ahmedabad’s Kanoria Centre for Arts becomes the setting for a quiet but compelling cultural crossover. Homegrown Art x Artisanal Fragrance , on view at Urmila Art Gallery from 30 January to 1 February 2026, brings together Indian folk and contemporary art with a curated sensory experience rooted in fragrance. The three-day exhibition presents a carefully selected collection of certified original artworks, priced between ₹3,000 and ₹3,00,000, making the show acces

At India Art Fair 2026, KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents a tightly curated booth that brings together three contemporary practices rooted in material, process, and physical intelligence. Featuring the works of Sandilya Theuerkauf, Meenal Singh, and Janarthanan Rudhramoorthy, the presentation unfolds as a conversation between sculpture and painting, where material is not treated as a surface or medium, but as an active agent in shaping meaning. Located at Booth L08 at the NSIC Exh

Method presents RITES , a solo exhibition by Berlin– and New York–based artist and technologist Alida Sun , on view from 31 January to 15 March 2026 in New Delhi. The exhibition examines technology through an alternative lens, placing code in conversation with ritual, embroidery, mirrorwork, and collective labour. At the centre of RITES is Sun’s long-term daily coding practice. For more than 2,300 consecutive days, she has written a new generative artwork every day, treatin

Threshold Art Gallery presents Intimate Terrains , a two-person exhibition featuring works by Shanti Swaroopini (India) and Michal Glikson (Australia), on view from 18 January to 28 February 2026. The exhibition traces a resonant relationship between two artists whose practices diverge in form yet converge in ethos. Both share formative training at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara—an environment that shaped their commitment to material expe

There is a different weight to an artist returning home, especially when the work arrives carrying three decades of practice. The Long Now of Us , a solo exhibition by Jagannath Panda , curated by Sibdas Sengupta , marks Panda’s first solo presentation in his hometown of Bhubaneswar. Opening at Lalit Kala Akademi , Regional Centre, the exhibition frames this homecoming not as nostalgia, but as a measured re-engagement with place, memory, and time. Presented by EO Odisha, The

History is often remembered through documents and monuments. Dzieci Maharadży: Maharaja’s Children – A Passage of Kindness and Respect approaches it differently, by placing memory in motion. Conceived by Bharatanatyam dancer and cultural storyteller Apeksha Niranjan , the project translates a lesser-known humanitarian chapter of World War II into performance, allowing it to be experienced rather than recounted. The Bhopal presentation of the project takes place on 18 January

The opening evening of KalaYatra 2026 , curated and led by Dr. Sonal Mansingh , unfolded at Kamani Auditorium with a clear emphasis on performance as inquiry rather than spectacle. From the first work of the night, it was evident that the Festival of New Choreographies was less interested in familiar narrative comfort and more invested in how classical dance can speak afresh. The festival opened with Amrut-Manthan , conceptualised, choreographed, and directed by Dr. Mansingh

At the International Art Carnival 2026 , where more than 800 national and international artists will present their work at Lalit Kala Akademi , one of the youngest exhibitors is already drawing attention. At just 18, Prabhnoor Kaur steps into her first exhibition of this scale, marking a quiet but significant moment in her early artistic journey. In conversation with Shweta of  Style Essentials , Prabhnoor describes her participation in the International Art Carnival as a tu

Echoes of the Hand is a solo exhibition by Gaurab Das, presented by Black Cube Gallery, on view from 30 January to 20 February 2026 at the gallery’s Hauz Khas space in New Delhi. The exhibition brings together a new body of sculptural works that explore touch, memory, and form through materials such as bronze, wood, and stone. Based in Santiniketan, Das works with forms that sit between the human, the animal, and the elemental. His sculptures are not descriptive or narrativ

Unstill Life is a solo exhibition by Dheer Kaku, currently on view at Method Kala Ghoda. The works in the show focus on architectural spaces, but they are not about buildings in a literal sense. They speak more about inner states, memory, and the difficulty of finding calm. Dheer Kaku grew up with very little private space. As a result, he became attentive to small corners, terraces, gaps between structures, and edges that often go unnoticed. These spaces offered him a sense

Military biographies often struggle with balance and lean too heavily into battlefield detail and the human being disappears and usually they focus only on heroism and the soldier turns into a symbol rather than a person. Para Commando , Deepak Surana’s account of Captain Arun Singh Jasrotia of 9 Para (Special Forces), avoids both traps by keeping its attention firmly on character, discipline, and the quiet choices that define leadership under pressure. Set during counter-ter

At Black Cube Gallery , Divine Manifestation , a solo exhibition by Meena Sansanwal , unfolds less as a conventional presentation of artworks and more as an intimate mapping of an inner universe. Presented from 7 to 22 January 2026, the exhibition brings together paintings, paper mache sculptures, and mixed-media installations created over nearly a decade, offering a rare, sustained view into an artist’s evolving inner language. Sansanwal, who studied painting at Delhi Colleg

I didn’t plan to finish After Us in one sitting. It happened anyway. That usually tells you something before a review even begins. Not because the book is racing ahead on twists or spectacle, but because it knows how to hold attention without demanding it. Akshay Chopra’s After Us | A Tale of Life Beyond Super Intelligent AI  is exactly that kind of book. Quietly confident. Uncomfortable in the right places. Despite its premise, Sui is far more interested in people than in t

A lot of productivity books assume something about you before you even start reading. That you’re lazy. Or undisciplined. Or that you just haven’t discovered the “right system” yet. This one doesn’t do that, which is probably why I stayed with it. Ravi Saroj starts from a much more familiar place. Procrastination. Overthinking. Wanting to do better but somehow not moving. And instead of pretending he cracked productivity overnight, he admits it took time. A lot of trial. A lo

AdiDev Press has introduced a new picture-book series that celebrates Indian cities through color, movement, and everyday moments—the kind children notice instinctively. The series opens with Adi and Arya Visit Delhi and Adi and Arya Visit Kolkata , two books created especially for toddlers and emerging readers, where illustrations are not decorative additions but the heart of the storytelling. Written by Chitwan Mittal and illustrated by Asuma Noor, the books invite childre

What gives Puja Mukherjee Khattri’s Play To Kill its hold on the reader is not loud action but the steady discomfort that comes from watching everyday routines shift in ways the characters cannot explain. Delhi becomes the ideal setting for this kind of story—crowded, fast-moving, and full of places where people disappear into one another’s blind spots. The novel begins with incidents that seem unrelated: a child disappearing inside a supermarket, a break-in that leaves no v