The World · 06

India

Ancient traditions, colonial modernity, independence, abstraction, feminism and global contemporary life meet here without resolving into a single Indian style.

01Amrita Sher-GilModernism looks back from India.02Bharti KherThe familiar body becomes unstable, hybrid and charged.03M.F. HusainA modern India in fast-moving lines.04Nalini MalaniHistory returns through layered voices and moving shadows.05Nasreen MohamediA line can hold light, distance and disciplined freedom.06Subodh GuptaThe kitchen utensil goes global.07Tyeb MehtaThe body caught at the instant of fracture.08V.S. GaitondeSilence with a surface.