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‘An-Nisa 1’ by Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora fabric, 152 x 119 cm, property of the artist, 2019, painted at the 1 Shanti Road Studio, Bangalore.

In this issue, that marks the transition to a new website, the stories are presented on a plain white background thus showcasing the original cover design by Yamuna Mukherjee.

The cover art is a detail from ‘Postulates from a Restless Radius, 2021’ by Jitish Kallat, details of which are as follows: Acrylic, gesso, lacquer, charcoal and watercolour pencil on linen, 640 x 320 cm radius, 375 cm length, Installation view, Ishara Art Foundation, UAE.

The cover art is by Aisha Khalid from the series ‘Fling Me Across the Fabric of Time and the Seas of Space’, gouache on paper board, 2022, 121.9 x 121.9 cm

The cover art is by Pushpamala N, titled Triptych, 2013, where three mannequins representing three major Indian communities pose against a painted street scene, diorama with painted sets, mannequins, costumes and props, size 8 x 8 x 6 feet.

The cover art is by Soghra Khurasani, titled Land-Escapes, 2015, Woodcut Print on Paper, 48 x 40 inches, in an edition of 3.

The cover art is by Atul Dodiya, titled ‘Karuna’, 2004-2006, 72 x 48 inches, enamel paint and synthetic varnish on laminate. Atul Dodiya was born in 1959, Mumbai.

The cover art by Gauri Gill bears the caption Untitled (15), from the series Acts of Appearance (2015—ongoing). Copyright Gauri Gill.

The cover art is by Sutapa Biswas and is from Lumen, 2021. Still. Digital video mastered on 4K. Duration: 30 minutes. Colour with sound. © Sutapa Biswas. All rights reserved, DACS 2022. Government Art Collection, UK.

The cover art is by Varunika Saraf and is part of her recent body of work, Caput Mortuum of which she says in her catalogue, ‘To speak about a present besieged by brutal acts of violence, this body of work takes its name from the synthetic Iron Oxide pigment Caput Mortuum (Dead Head) that resembles dried blood.’ The image is a detail from the work ‘Let’s Tell it Like it Is’, 2020, watercolour on Wasli backed with cotton textile, 67 x 76 in.

The cover art is by Lubna Chowdhary and is one of the series of three ceramic works titled ‘Sign’, 140 cm x 140 cm, ceramic.

The The cover art is by Alka Dass and is titled ‘The look you gave me made flowers grow in my…’, 2020, digital print, 14 x 14 cm.

The cover art is by Alyina Zaidi and is titled ‘The Dark Valley – The Cave’, 20 x 16 inches, acrylic on wood.

The cover image, is by Vibha Galhotra from the series IN … TIMES (performance photo work), digital photo print on Hahnemuhle archival paper, 2020; credits: collaboration on dress design – Rohit Gandhi + Rahul Khanna, behind camera – Rajesh Kumar Singh

The cover image for this release of Out of Print is by Dhruvi Acharya. Titled ‘Painting in the Time of Corona, 11 April 2020, lockdown day 18’ (watercolour on paper, 50.8 cm by 36.2 cm), it is one of an extraordinary series that she began on March 22, 2020, the day of the Janata Curfew. By that time, Dhruvi had been in self-isolation for ten days. She soon challenged herself to try and complete a painting every day of lockdown. Each of the pictures is visually compelling and profoundly thought-provoking, an intense reflection of what she is going through, what we are collectively going through. The one on the cover, with its layered complexity and multiple stories struck us as a way to look from the bizarre reality of the present time to a set of tense, strong stories written before the pandemic.

The cover image ‘Rupture’, 2015, genuine gold leaf, site specific intervention Shyam Bazaar, Dhaka is by Ayesha Sultana.

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The cover image by Rekha Rodwittiya is entitled ‘Love Done Right Can Change the World’, acrylic and oil on canvas, 1.83 m by 1.22 m

The cover image entitled ‘Don’t Wait for Anything’, acrylic on canvas, 250 x 280 cm is by Laco Teren.

Nilima Sheikh’s exquisitely detailed ‘Departure’, tempera on Sanganer vasli paper is reproduced with the permission of the artist.

The artwork by Reena Saini Kallat is titled the ‘Leaking Lines (Radcliffe Line)’, 2018, (electric wires, steel nails, charcoal, embossed and laser cut arches paper, 70 x 95 cm, image courtesy: Iris Dreams) and is reproduced with the permission of the artist.

The artwork, untitled, mixed media, 60″ x 60″, is by Mehli Gobai. We are grateful to Shireen Gandhy for facilitating the use of the image that we have courtesy the late Mehlli Gobhai and Chemould Prescott Road.

The artwork, ‘Tree and Trail’, pen and ink on paper, 14.5″ x 17″, collection of Nova and Jarvis Rockwell is by Michelle Farooqi.

The artwork is by Sudhir Patwardhan and is titled ‘Street Corner’, oil on canvas, 1985, 152×183 cm.

The cover image by Neha Choksi is the third panel from a series of 7 woodcuts, Repeat Integrity (Oak), 47 x 35 inches each panel, unique series, 2016. Photo credit: Anil Rane.

The cover image by Olivia Fraser is one from a series of nine panels titled, You are the Sun, 2015, stone pigment, gold leaf and gum arabic on handmade Sanganer wasli, 14×14’’. Other panels from the series accompany the stories in the issue. The complete series, in sequence, may be viewed on the artist’s site.

The image by Dhruvi Acharya, is of a 2010 10”x10” work of polymer paint on panel titled ‘He He He’.

The image is a still from Mithu Sen’s 2014 Kochi Muziris Bienalle video installation I Have Only One Language; It Is Not Mine.

The artwork by Dayanita Singh is from her series, Go Away Closer. Termed ‘a novel without words’ the project ‘concerns a series of opposites’ such as ‘presence and absence’ and ‘proximity and distance’.

The artwork by Anish Kapoor, Untitled, is a gouache from a leporello book made by the artist in 2011.

The artwork is by Ranjeeta Kumari and is titled Afternoon (water colour on paper, 14”x 20”, 2016).

The artwork is by Mequitta Ahuja and is titled Performing Painting: Seated Scribe (oil on canvas, 84”x80”, 2015).

The artwork is by Delna Dastur and is titled Balancing Act, (charcoal and pastel on canvas, 2008, 40×40’’).

The artwork is by Sudhir Patwardhan and is titled Paying the Bill, acrylic on canvas, 2005, 36×48’’.

The cover art by Chitra Ganesh is entitled Wedding Night (2000, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 66 inches).

The artwork by Mira Brunner titled Cosmogram 4 was commissioned specifically for the issue.

The artwork by Heraa Khan adheres in extraordinary serendipity to the thread of connection that runs through the stories in the issue.

The artwork on the cover page by Rohini Devasher is a detail from her work Bloodlines, a video and print installation (single channel video, duration 45mins; print 60x60inches on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper; 2009; image courtesy Rohini Devasher and Project 88 Mumbai).

The artwork, entitled Underfoot and Overhead, is by Yamini Nayar and takes its name from a line of Rudyard Kipling poem entitled A Song of the White Men.

The artwork, titled Searching for Rousseau is by Yamuna Mukherjee.

Artwork by Suki Dhanda from the series, Shopna,

Artwork, by Archana Hande, is from a sequence of the story board for an animation film, All is Fair in Magic White, 2009, and is rendered in acrylic, colour pencil, and charcoal pencil on cotton fabric of dimensions 3.5′ x 3.5′. The piece is a satirical account of an aspiring, tumultuous, dirty and shockingly populated Bombay and its hope for a picture-postcard conversion into a global megapolis of the future. Historicity complicates this troublesome vision by raising questions of power, class and race.

Artwork entitled Dawn by Olivia Fraser

An image from a collaborative community project by N S Harsha involving the TVS School in Tumkur

Artwork entitled The Difficulty by Anju Dodiya

A commissioned piece of artwork by Out of Print editor, Mira Brunner entitled Kya,

A commissioned piece of artwork by Vinayak Varma entitled Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai,

Work from the Bureaucratics series by Jan Banning

Art by Pushpamala N entitled Motherland-The Festive Tableau (2009, photo credit: Clay Kelton)

Work entitled Worth the Weight by Nibha Sikander

Art by our editor Samhita Arni

A photograph taken by Clare Arni during the Madurai Meenakshi Chitirai festival