The Usefulness of Death: Aravind Malagatti’s ‘Karya’Deepa BhasthiArtReview22 July 2021This novella, first published in 1988, comments on death’s potential as a spectacle and tool
Zarina and the Idea of Home: What Happens When an Artist Becomes an Exile?Deepa BhasthiArtReview Asia07 July 2021Revisiting Zarina’s subtle and quietly devastating artworks can be anchoring to anyone cast adrift by this abnormal life
What Gets To Be Chosen as ‘Heritage’?Deepa BhasthiArtReview22 April 2021How can India renew itself without properly coming to terms with its past?
‘The Fury Archives’: An Alternative History of Women’s ResistanceDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia24 December 2020From bildungsroman literature to birth-control pamphlets, Jill Richards’s new study charts the struggles of female citizenship across time
Can Art Challenge the Caste Wars? On the Cultural Politics of BrahminismDeepa Bhasthiartreview.com24 December 2020What the pioneering 1970 film ‘Samskara’ tells us as we navigate faultlines of race and caste today
How Rightwing Politics Is Reshaping History in IndiaDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia06 November 2020What do we lose when major chunks of the past are excluded or erased from pedagogy?
Caste Aside: the Manual Scavengers of Tamil NaduDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia18 September 2020When it comes to depicting India’s underclass, politics is more important than aesthetics
