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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 21 | Founded | 3 months ago | Last Issue | 2 days ago |
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Look Again Episode 2.5: The Code of the Slow-Burn [Part 1/3]
The most-discussed television of the last few years, among a certain kind of viewer, is built almost entirely on people not touching each other.
Six episodes of a hand not taken. A conversation that ends one sentence early. Two people in a...
Ep. 7: The Art/Craft Split
Dear Pre-Millennials,
I want to show you a contradiction so deep you have stopped being able to see it.
You walk into an exhibition. You see a beautiful original painting priced at seven hundred rupees. Your first instinct is to bargain....
Ep. 1.5: Prada's ₹1.2 Lakh Theft and the Fiction of Indian "Craft"
I know this has been one of the most discussed fashion scandals of recent years. Every IP law blog, every fashion magazine, every outraged Instagram account covered it. I’m coming to it late, and on purpose.
Because I think there’s an impo...
Ep. 2.4: The Geometry of Subservience
There is a painting of an Indian Roller – a bird – made in Calcutta around 1780. It is exquisite. Every feather is rendered with a precision that borders on the unbelievable. The bird sits in profile against a plain ground, correctly propor...
Ep. 6: The Indian Corporate Kindness Purge
Dear Pre-Millennials,
A friend of mine works in advertising. He held a baby shower recently - the relaxed, generous kind that tells you something about who he is - and somewhere in the conversation he said something that I haven’t been abl...
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