When I curated Bhakti: The Art of Krishna at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in 2024, one of the most quietly compelling works on view was Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna. For many in ...
Whether Ram, Vishnu, or Lakshmi, the heroic warriors of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Shakuntala of Kalidasa, the King of Baroda, or Swami Vivekananda, there is one name that brings them all under the ...
New Delhi: To understand how India visualises its gods, its epics, and even its past, the nation often arrives at Raja Ravi Varma. In many ways, Raja Ravi Varma’s work is to the Indian public ...
For Ravi Varma, cinema did not begin as a dream, it arrived as an accident and quietly altered the direction of his life. Today, the man who once drove an auto on Bengaluru’s streets is among the ...