The Jaipur Crafts Festival – March 11th to 13th, 2022 The event celebrated Olkaan Nishtah and our craft revival initiative along with Antaran, a craft-based livelihood program. The festival spotlighted India’s fabulous traditional methods of material cultural patronage, fresh, technocratic research and data-driven approaches to the enterprise and culture of Continue Reading
arts and crafts of Rajasthan
The Bikaner Theatre, Art and Cultural Festival: Jan 15th to 30th, 2021
Manot – The dust that raised a Jawahar in the desert – Bikaner – In conversation with Shanane Davis and Graf Adhiraj Singh https://olkaannishtah.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shanane-Davis-and-Graf-Adhiraj-Singh.mp4 The sublime usage of iconography to portray power and politics in South Asian Painting – In discussion with Shanane Davis, Graf Adhiraj Singh and Vinit Vyas Continue Reading
The Laud Rāgamālā Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting
The Laud Ragamala Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting is a tale of two present-day “Indiana Joneses”art historian Professor Molly Emma Aitken and Connoisseur Shanane Davis who made an extraordinary discovery regarding the most famous Indian muraqqa (album book with miniature paintings and calligraphy) found in a European Continue Reading