The Untrained Eye
Aparajitha VaasudevA newsletter about learning to see — through the lens of South Asian culture, mythology, and the visual traditions nobody taught us to claim as our own.
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India Has No Illustration Agents
A note before we begin: this essay is deliberately incomplete. I am a working illustrator with fifteen years of professional experience – not a lawyer, not a policy researcher, not a publisher. Some of what follows is professional observati...
Look Again Ep. 2.6: The 1905 Counter-Attack
The first image of Mother India is smaller than a sheet of paper.
You expect something monumental. A vast canvas, a towering figure, the kind of grand nationalist statement that gets hung behind a podium. What Abanindranath Tagore actually...
Dear Premillenials Ep. IX: There Is No Formula
My cherished and growing library, as of today.
Every week, someone writes to me on behalf of a young person. Usually a parent. Sometimes a grandparent, which I find unexpectedly moving. The message is always warm and always structured the...
160 years of colonial shame
In 1838, a British army engineer named Captain T.S. Burt was being carried through central India when his bearers brought him to a cluster of temples half-swallowed by forest at Khajuraho. He was overwhelmed. The scale of the architecture,...
The Body as a Site Of Shame (or, The Internal Crush)
In the last essay, I wrote about a civilisation confident enough to carve desire onto the outer walls of its temples - shringara, the aesthetic experience of love and longing, ranked by its own theorists as the highest thing art could reach...
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