20
Mahesh Rangarajan
On the cause of concern sitting upon our
strong democratic foundations
24
Mudras of a Nation
Decoding India’s many dances as
national
sub-projects
34
Navtej Johar
What we lost when dance cultures were
sanitised for the new nation
36
Shubha Mudgal
All the noise around folk music and what
it will take to save it
40
Ira Bhaskar
Early Indian cinema imagined a brave
new India, then things changed
44
Narayani Gupta
How India’s archaeological past was
curated in the light of the new nation
50
Rta Kapur Chisti
Ritu Kumar
Threads of a nation, and the sari
54
Tapati Guha Thakurta
A past painted for the future.
Art as the formative
nationbuilding
frontier.
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