In her catalogue essay for a landmark exhibition of “Indian Women Artists” presented jointly by NGMA and Gallery Espace (April, 1997), art curator and historian Gayatri Sinha explores the notion of gender and feminine experience, through a potent philosophical...
Aranya Padil
Aranya Padil is a poet, and writer-curator currently based in Delhi, a place to which he doesn't belong. His debut collection of poetry “the map is not the territory” was launched, with Copper Coin, in October 2025. He is the editor of Poetly, a newsletter that curates Indian and international poetry, along with commentaries that contextualise the works within contemporary socio-cultural discourses and artistic practice.
He is the founding editor of ArteSpace, an E-Journal of the Arts, published by Gallery Espace.
‘Babel of Broken Pencil Points’ : 3 Poems after Artworks by Shilpa Gupta
Untitled Between the scratching pencil and the interface, a red palm bloomsinto a fist of petals i bite its green stem and the white sap turnspaisley with want i hold it close this fiery missive from the tombsthese fingers long as...
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Ars Poetica : The Shape of Friendship
Could we think about artistic practice through the “technologies” of friendship?
Editorial: Anthology
The “Working Space” of Art
…each time the world she paints is new (Excerpted from So Long, Tom; The Poetly Newsletter)My encounter with visual art grew from an affinity with sound – the deep more-than-human alāp of dhrupad music gave birth to ways of apprehending and finding resonance with the...



