Celebrating India's Living Heritage
JOURNAL
Objects, conversations and ways of making.
A closer look at Banaras, through the people who know it.
The pattern
before the cloth
Before a motif reaches the loom, it has already passed through another pair of hands. Meet the naqshaband.
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A small world in glass
A bead fits between two fingers. Its making belongs to a much larger story.
A museum begins with a vision
Rai Krishnadasa, the Tagores and the beginnings of Bharat Kala Bhavan.
The patient surface
In Banaras metal repoussé, a surface takes shape through repeated acts of handwork.
Beginning with Banaras
Gayatri Sinha on approaching a city through art, memory and the senses.
A city, many
ways of knowing.
The Journal brings together curators, artists, craft practitioners, musicians, scholars, students, conservators and writers. Alongside perspectives from Bharat Kala Bhavan, archives and the Biennale editorial team, their work opens different ways into Banaras.