British magazines, often quaintly out of date by several months, even years were a source of recipes, decorating ideas and more on plantations. This is..
The pantry cupboard in plantation homes always held neat piles of tinned foods and fruits to tide over emergencies and the heavy monsoons, when mildew..
Ice creams and chilled desserts continued to be something of a luxury and novelty in plantation homes for a long time after refrigeration became easily..
Excerpts from a monograph on Rekha Rao Hebbar Rekha engages with the contemporary world, but her painterly concerns are equally the problems of the newly..
In the paintings and drawings of Lalu Prasad Shaw, the line- unfaltering, tensile- speaks. The elegant, stylized portraits of men and women of the Bengali..
Plantation cooks belonged to a special tribe, now almost extinct. Eccentric, temperamental, usually drunk on arrack on market days, they had a distressing tendency to..
In one of the remarkable coincidences of history, two of the world’s iconic heritage hotels, born in modest circumstances of British colonial encounters in the..
The overwhelming diversity of expression in aesthetics and form in Indian craft comes from centuries of responses to the cultural, utilitarian, sacred, ritual, historic and..
