BOOKS & ART

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

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....