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Remembering B N Goswamy

  • A recent book on tea establishes for the reader what tea means to Indians, and how it is served everywhere, besides providing a peep into its history

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • A curious mix of terms, blending Hindi, Persian and Rajasthani words, strikes as one walks through the wonderfully spacious complex that makes up the Sawai Man Singh Palace Museum at Jaipur. This may not be a-typical, and surely one encounters...

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • Feuillet, occupant of a high office in the French foreign ministry, was inordinately fond of the Fables of La Fontaine. In 1835 he sent several copies of a French edition of the book to Lahore for having them illustrated by an Indian painter

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • There is freshness in the sketches of Master Kundan Lal of Nathdwara in Rajasthan, made both in England and India during the 19th century

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • I write here briefly about Company Painting and the idea comes to mind after having seen just a couple of weeks back a fine new catalogue of a part of the collection of Praful and Shilpa Shah both avid collectors of painting even if more widely known as collectors and connoisseurs of Indian textiles

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • A new event – a range of installations by six Delhi-based artists and a guest curator, also Delhi-based – opened the other day at the Panjab University’s Museum of Fine Arts. Much has been sought to be made of it, but...

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • I had begun looking forward to the event from the moment the invitation card from the Philadelphia Museum of Art arrived, some two months ago. The fact that there was to be an exhibition of Alvin Bellak’s distinguished collection of...

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • The Bhagvad Gita has been translated, commented upon, paraphrased, rendered into vernaculars, countless times but there are remarkably few illustrated versions of the text of the first of books

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • Artist after artist tried to visualise the tower and bring into being an image of one of the most ambitious undertakings of man, weaving into this image different themes like lofty thought, ambition, anger, justice and injustice

    B.N. Goswamy
    18 Nov 2024
  • Abu’l Hasan, a painter in the court of Jahangir, was an artist gifted with deep psychological insight, observation and workmanship

    B.N. Goswamy
    17 Nov 2024
  • The tents and furnishings in Mughal courts reveal the presence of a flourishing, and highly specialised, industry dealing exclusively with creating and maintaining those remarkable structures

    B.N. Goswamy
    17 Nov 2024
  • An exhibition of select textiles opened at the National Museum in New Delhi recently. It centres upon textiles that left the shores of India centuries ago. When one thinks that one has seen them all, something alluring surfaces, writes B. N. Goswamy

    B.N. Goswamy
    17 Nov 2024
  • There is much to learn from institutes like Jnana-Pravaha in Benaras, which are dedicated to the study of Indian cultural traditions. Here the emphasis is entirely on nurturing talent and promoting excellence

    B.N. Goswamy
    17 Nov 2024
  • We, in Chandigarh, claimed Prof BN Goswamy as our own, cheering him and basking in his achievements as he travelled and lectured around the world. We knew he would be back home, and we could interact with him, listen to...

    Roopinder Singh
    16 Nov 2024
  • A passion and a vision in Kasauli November 12, 2023 (five days before he passed away aged 90) 19.4.76 (Moscow) Dear Vivan, we had been to Leningrad — fantastic place — remembered you quite a lot. Went to Hermitage and...

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    16 Nov 2024
  • BN Goswamy was India’s most eminent art historian — distinguished with the highest honours by the Indian government and admired by his readers and listeners for his deep and traditional understanding of Hindu religiosity as well as Muslim Sufi culture;...

    Eberhard Fischer
    16 Nov 2024
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