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Heritage Matters
When I am invited to teach modules about art history and cultural heritage, I always remember the words of the late artist, professor and cultural advocate K G Subramanyan “…As we all know, India in a vast continent with a long history. It’s cultural heritage or what little remains of it, is still quite immense. So, the preservation and nurture needs to be a nationwide effort involving all the existing agencies, official and non-official, as well as the general mass of people. For they are the final custodians of culture; without them it will be one step forward and two steps […]
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Why Objectspeak?
I began my very first Instagram page in 2019, as an extension of a fellowship that involved developing outreach programs and public educational modules for a museum. I was always interested in old and beautiful things, whether buildings, books, or objects of any sort. Studying art history after training in printmaking opened up a world of interests, and most of them tied down to material culture of some sort. Over these five years, my page has filled with numerous depictions and descriptions of objects and artefacts – in museums, in homes, in temples and churches, in forests and heritage sites. If […]