The Political Power of the Indian MonsoonDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia21 October 2021Giver of life and song, destroyer of politicians – nowhere else perhaps is there as much pressure on a natural phenomenon to perform well
How To Live with a Political Consciousness: U. R. Ananthamurthy, ‘Avasthe’Deepa BhasthiArtReview06 August 2021This political tale, first published in 1978, explores the role of the individual in public thought
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