A French-Indian visual artist, her work focuses on identity, memory, and cultural intersections. Women of Urban India is a series of 12 portraits that reflect the essence of the contemporary woman ...

Western Massachusetts artist raises awareness through powerful portraits, on display at the Springfield Museums through September 7.

As they age, Indian women are expected to recede into the background and abandon the pursuit of beauty. Curious about her mother’s renewed obsession with her image on the internet, a writer speaks to ...

Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq on Tuesday won the International Booker Prize for her short story collection ...

Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq on Tuesday won the International Booker Prize for her short story collection ...

offer affecting portraits of family and community. Specifically, they illuminate the lives of Muslim and Dalit women and children in southern India. An activist and lawyer, Mushtaq trains her keen ...

Originally published in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, Banu Mushtaq’s portraits of family and community tensions testify to her years tirelessly championing women’s rights and protesting ...

She is simple, she says, childish, she says, plays all day with trifles, regardless of the mad doings of real men and women. ‘As simple as you please, the simplest sort of simple — I’ll be a ...

Of the portraits, Ramakrishna has portrayed 11 women from her own friends ... Her work reflects her milieu of urban Indian landscapes, and weaves in vivid textiles on rooftop terraces.