Mihr Chand

“Because we are all human and there by share a
neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand
is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?”
― Norman Bryson, Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze

“This river, a blue garment bordered with rich green life in many hues and patterns, now flows twisted and knotted – rumpled with thirty big dams, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams. This is what they have done to the oldest river in the subcontinent, the dyke of whose valley housed the oldest human settlement and gallery in this part of the world, Bhimbetka; the river that nurtures the Satpura forests, the oldest again. They are now talking of interlinking rivers. It is like infusing all blood types into all bodies. It is mass murder.”
― Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Finding My Way

“Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“How Mughal paintings signified cannot be argued out here, but my point is that the work of categorizing must–if Indian paintings are to emerge from the margins of art history–make room for a return to questions about how they mattered to viewers.”
― Molly Emma Aitken, A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting