Ritika Kochhar

Ritika Kochhar is a storyteller and an eternal seeker of goddesses, libraries,16th-century monuments, miniatures, myths and manuscripts. Author of four books and over 300 articles in The Hindu, Frontline and India Today, she is also the founder of ArtRadio, a podcast that brings art history alive through stories and conversation. A defender of the downtrodden and a hunter of stories, she wanders through museums, manuscripts, sunshine, and dance.

Latest from Ritika Kochhar

Pages from the Muraqqa-e Gulshan

U.S.-Israel war with Iran | Why damage to Tehran’s Golestan Palace should worry India

Vincent Dubourg’s Exodus II at Gallerie Scene Ouverte

Inside ID Salon, where function became fine art

Art of Liberation exhibition

Shilo Shiv Suleman is taking her Art of Liberation exhibition to New York

Tyeb Mehta, Santiniketan, 1985 (triptych, oil on canvas)

‘The Big Book of Indian Art’ — an encyclopaedic look at more than 300 Indian artists

Paintings from The Chandayan

‘The Chandayan’ | Decoding the 14th century epic’s relevance

Installation view

Emami Arts retrospective | K.G. Subramanyan, Kolkata’s Tamil visionary

Jyoti Bhatt’s Black + White = Silver

Art for Baby | Indian baby book’s journey to Christie’s

Photographer Rohit Chawla with Banned

Banned | Rohit Chawla’s installation on books that were silenced

Thomas Daniell’s oil on canvas, Hindoo Antiquities at Mahavalipuram, E. Indies

DAG to unveil Thomas Daniell’s painting of Mahabalipuram

Desilting of the Nizamuddin Baoli

Answering the call of 10,000 baolis

An old map of Mewar

Lessons from Udaipur | Painted and printed maps on exhibit at the City Palace Museum

How free are our teachers social media guidelines legislation policing outside the classroom Teachers and Students Connect on Social Media

How free are our teachers?

In a Cannibal Time at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity

Naveen Kishore’s ‘In a Cannibal Time’: The dark (and light) unleashed

Clockwise from top left: Akshita Gandhi, Pritika Chowdhry, Maya Varadaraj, Vibha Galhotra, Shilo Shiv Suleman, and Avani Rai

Art | Agents of change: six women artists discuss their canvas and worldview

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