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A project idea on using artworks as prompts to write about the figures in the freedom movement marginalized in or left out of the history books.

Guests joined DAG for an enchanting flute recital by internationally acclaimed Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and a curatorial walk-through of Delhi Durbar: Empire, Display and the Possession of History by historians and curators Rana Safvi and Swapna Liddle.

This collection of essays, co-edited by eminent scholars of art history, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Vazira Zamindar, navigate the fraught religio-political contexts of South Asia to bring into relief the fragility and amorphous nature of a contested term like the ‘secular’.

Curator Gayatri Sinha explores how ascetic traditions in India have shaped ideas of the body, spirituality, discipline, and identity across centuries, through art, history, and lived practices. The exhibition The Body of the Ascetic explores the deeply layered visual representations of asceticism in the Indian subcontinent spanning centuries, cultures, faiths and traditions.