BOOKS & ART

Relationship advice is often delivered in sweeping statements, yet most people struggle not because they lack theory but because they lack clarity. Debotosh Chatterjee approaches this familiar terrain with a different temperament. His book is rooted in everyday behavior—the silences we let grow, the boundaries we fail to set, and the assumptions that settle in unnoticed. Instead of treating relationships as grand emotional undertakings, he breaks them down into habits that de

Fiction set in hospitals often leans on urgency, but Mayank Gupta chooses a different entry point. His debut turns its attention to the quieter corners of a U.S. medical center, observing five Indian doctors who move through the same space while carrying questions they never quite voice. The book isn’t driven by events as much as by the private weight these characters try to balance behind practiced composure. Dr. Silva stands at the center, steady on the surface, until a ban

Method Delhi presents Signs of Life , a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Kunel Gaur, bringing together four bodies of work that explore how emotion, identity, and structure coexist in the designed world. Instead of treating each series as an isolated study, the exhibition ties them together as points along a continuum — one where human nuance intersects with engineered precision. Across the gallery, colour, pattern, and industrial logic operate in measured tens

At Method Kala Ghoda, Aditiya Singh’s new exhibition, Where is Jennifer? , unfolds less like a thematic show and more like a stream of thought made visible. The question in the title isn’t a mystery to solve; it’s the starting point for a body of work that moves between humour, fixation, instinct, and the quiet chaos that fuels an artist who paints because he has to. The works drift between acrylic, ink, and watercolour, but what stands out is the way figures seem to appear a

Black Cube Gallery, led by Sanya Malik, opens December with Modern Freskos , the first solo exhibition in India by Berlin-based contemporary artist Paul Kuntze . Born in 1995, Kuntze brings a visual language shaped by history but not defined by it, looking closely at Baroque fresco traditions and translating them into a style that sits firmly in the present. Kuntze’s work begins with a deep interest in the ceiling paintings of old churches and palaces — those large, theatrica

Dhoomimal Gallery opens its December programme with Ski(e)n: Re-membering through Performance and Thread , an exhibition that brings together RCA alumni Abhijna Vemuru Kasa and Insha Manzoor under the curatorship of Jyoti A Kathpalia. Both artists work from deeply personal terrains, yet their practices intersect on questions of memory, identity, and the structures—cultural, familial, and political—that shape the body. Abhijna, who divides her time between Hyderabad and San Fr

‘ Zaaviye’ , an Urdu word meaning angles or perspectives, brings together imagery and poetry in a rare and delicate embrace. What began as a dream now unfolds in an intimate exhibition and a finely crafted coffee table book.   The project features 32 evocative black-and-white photographs by Gaurav Bharadwaj, each accompanied by a verse graciously gifted by Gulzar Saab. Together, they form a meditative conversation between word and image — a dialogue between what is visible an

Borders may divide land, but they can never sever memory. We Were Always Neighbours, curated by Sahil Arora, Gallery Director of Method...

This October, New Delhi in India will see Travancore Palace open its doors to Art of Liberation , an exhibition put together by artist...

Connaught Place, with its colonnaded corridors and restless rhythm, has seen much of New Delhi’s cultural history unfold. At its centre,...

Time usually rushes past us in traffic, in deadlines, and in the noise of cities. But inside Vartaman , time stretches. You notice the...

The sense of urgency that hangs heavy in the air whenever climate change is spoken about is something most of us have grown used to...

A slim paperback, just over 120 pages, that sits lightly in the hand but heavier in thought than many manuals three times its size....

Some books entertain, and then some books sit heavy on your chest, the kind that don’t leave once you’re done with them. They break you...

Disha’s Love You Zindagi , published by Srishti Publishers , is not a book about escape. It is a record of lives that insist on being...

There is nothing ornamental about Kamini Kusum’s Soch Se Bhi Aage . Spread across a little more than 180 pages, the book is a...

Reading Behind the Cancer Ribbon , one doesn’t simply turn pages—one accompanies Rinaa Peter on an intimate­ly told journey through...

Some children's books just tell stories, but some are quite special and open up a whole new world. Neel: Krishna Through Art is one of...

Some crimes are so bold and silly that they almost seem made up. But they did happen. Sourabh Mukherjee's The Great Indian Heists is not...

Rafael Badziag’s The Billion Dollar Secret doesn’t bother with the familiar motivational fluff about waking up early, visualising...