Goswamy

India lost one of its foremost art historians when Brijinder Nath Goswamy, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Panjab University, Chandigarh, died on 17 November, aged 90. He was born in Sargodha (now in Pakistan) in 1933. BN Goswamy (1933-2023) (Courtesy Aleph Book Company) Apart from being a beloved teacher, a critic and curator, and a scholar who produced rigorous but accessible work on Pahari painting and Indian miniature art, Goswamy also developed the Museum of Fine Arts at Panjab University. It is rare…

We are Gittu and Tinki, a couple of very learned Indian cats. One night, we spied on our human’s table, a book with a cat on its cover, which pleased us. We read it while he slept, and quickly pawed in this review. Cats at Worli in Mumbai (Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times) 228pp, Rs1299; Aleph We are glad someone got around to making this informative, engrossing, entertaining, and heartwarming exploration of art on us, your feline overlords companions. The Indian Cat: Stories, Paintings, Poetry and…

Dipankar Goswamy, visual effects lead on Spiderman - Into the Spider-Verse that won the Academy Award for best animated feature film in 2019, has been associated with a number of projects including The Sea Beast, Vivo, Kingsman – The Golden Circle, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Amazing Spiderman 2, and Oz the Great and Powerful. An alumnus of IDC, IIT, Mumbai, Goswamy, who has won numerous industry accolades, now creates photorealistic as well as painterly imagery for feature films with Sony Pictures Imageworks. Few,…