2017 year end special

An artwork from Varma’s ‘Wayside Vignettes’ series. Photo Courtesy: Gallery G, Bangalore

Rukmini Varma’s art of realism

5 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Year-End Special: Don’t ring out the old

3 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Iftikhar Khan of New Life Watch Company. Photographs by Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

Year-End Special: The ministry of broken things

14 min read . 29 Dec 2017

In the age of iPods and online music-streaming services, Saregama Carvaan is the perfect blend of all things old and new.

Year-End Special: Retro tech is new again

2 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Shane Warne of Australia (left) congratulates England’s Kevin Pietersen. Photo: Getty Images

Year-End Special: From the ashes

7 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Jackets carved from Khadi gamchas and recycled polythene, dresses made of chatai (floor mats).

Year-End Special: A stitch in time

3 min read . 29 Dec 2017

#NotInMyName began trending as several cities organized their own marches. Photo: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times

Year-End Special: Hashtags that shaped 2017

4 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Author Aanchal Malhotra poses with her grandmother’s ‘maang tikka. Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Year-End Special: Shine on, you crazy diamond

7 min read . 29 Dec 2017

The value of things that no longer fit

5 min read . 29 Dec 2017

‘The Forest Of Forgotten Stories’ is an artwork made from pages of unpublished and old novels. Photo courtesy: Wolf Jaipur

Year-End Special: A reader’s guide to rereading

6 min read . 30 Dec 2017

Theaster Gates at the UChicago centre in New Delhi. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Year-End Special: ‘In art we trust’

5 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Notes found in the pages of old books collected by The Book Inscriptions Project.

Year-End Special: Life on the margins

7 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Chirodeep Chaudhuri. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

Year-End Special: Finders keepers

6 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Abhishek Basak at his Delhi studio. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Year-End Special: The man who recycles time

2 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Ramanik K. Shah, and some of his restored furniture pieces. Photo: Abhishek BA/Mint

Year-End Special: The secret of Bhuj

4 min read . 29 Dec 2017

2017 Year End Special

1 min read . 29 Dec 2017

2017 Year End Special

1 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Heads from series ‘Laga chunari mein daag’. Photo credit: Rukshaan Art

Year-End Special: Girjesh Kumar Singh, the rubble rouser

5 min read . 29 Dec 2017

The depiction of the marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvathi. This is a traditional-style Mysore painting, water-based colour on paper, measuring 95.5 x121.5cms. Photo courtesy: ICKPAC

Year-End Special: The art doctors

3 min read . 29 Dec 2017

Nimmu House was the 20th century home of the king of Ladakh’s cousin, a tax collector.

Year-End Special: If these walls could talk, what tales they didn’t tell

2 min read . 29 Dec 2017