Indian Painting, The modern phase

Published in Roop Lekha, volume XXVI, no. 2, Winter, 1955, pp. 13-18

The tradition of painting which swept back to 2,000 years with the first murals of Ajanta came to an apparent close towards the end of the 19^th century in India.

The last efflorescence of traditional painting was witnessed

Art and the Freudian Doctrine

What differentiates psychoanalysis from other schools of psychological speculation is its claims to be a complete philosophical system by itself. There is practically no field of human activity and endeavour that it has not sought to interpret anew. It has its own theories to offer regarding the origin

Art and the predicament of man

The backdrop against which man traces the parabolic arc of his life, comes to terms with circumstance, using it to fulfil his destiny as a conqueror or facing it with fortitude even in defeat and death, has changed over the ages. But the present age does not seem to have any parallel, for the stature

The World Through the Camera

Tall pines soaring upwards in clean verticals frame the landscape of a Himalayan foothill range. Splashes of sunlight on the textured bark of the stems, lacework embroidered by pine needles in the foreground, the foliage of the trees in the middle distance registered in heavy in heavy tones, while in

Photography as an Art

The evolutionary process has steadily given the biological organism increasing control over the environment. The number of sensory organs, the power of motor action, the quality of the co-ordination effected by the central nervous system all these go on increasing as we move up the ladder. The development