Roma Chatterji

Roma Chatterji

Roma Chatterji is a visiting professor at the Sociology Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University. She is the author of Writing Identities: Folklore and the Performing Arts of Purulia(2009), Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Imagination in India (2012, 2016) and Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India (2020).

Memory, Loss and the Ageing Body: The Art of Anoli Parera

by Roma Chatterji

When I came back from US I knew nobody in Sri Lanka. I first started painting seriously while we were there and I also had my first solo exhibition while Sasanka and I were in Santa Barbara.[^1] I started going to exhibitions at the newly opened Heritage Gallery in...

`Between the ‘Folk’ and the ‘Contemporary’: The Making of Pardhan-Gond Art

by Roma Chatterji

What is the significance of the art world in constituting “folk art” practices? Do art exhibitions and craft melas serve as contact zones where different ‘cultures’ meet and interact as equals or is there a hierarchical relationship whereby the values of the art world...