Essays
The Monster in the Bed
Childhood can be a time of cosy confidences—or experiences so devastatingly adult a child can never share them. Shreevatsa Nevatia on the trauma of childish secrets
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Forest Cover
Part of the Zionist vision for Israel was to return to prehistory, to the Biblical land of milk and honey. As if planting trees over villages would remove every trace of their Arab inhabitants, writes Sharif S Elmusa
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Trees of Life
Artist A Ramachandran’s richly metaphorical trees are a visual feast and a botanist’s confusion, writes Rupika Chawla
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A Perfect Imperfection
Cristina de Middel’s latest photographic work focuses on India, drawing connections with Charlie Chaplin in a characteristically whimsical style, writes Lola Mac Dougall
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In the Image of the Forest
Indian art, craft and textiles have a richly diverse tradition of drawing materials and metaphors from nature, writes Jaya Jaitly
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Speaking in Wood
Viewing a work by environmental artist David Nash can involve a journey—into a forest. Anita Roy makes a pilgrimage to a remote wood in North Wales
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The Limin
The forest, in our epics, is not the peaceful site of vanaprastha or even merely the dark and dangerous unknown. It is not otherworldly, but a place of transition—and transgression, writes Arshia Sattar
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Très Noir
The personal life of the Expressionist master, Fritz Lang, was as tortured and ambivalent as his films. Rashmi Sawhney explores the dense greyness behind the scenes
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Are We Dead?
Shoili Kanungo's graphic piece on the looming—or are they present?—perils of consumerism
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The Art of Remembering
Affected by the work of an artist on a quest to memorialise individual victims of the Nazis, Sohini Chattopadhyay wonders why India prefers to brush its traumas into the dustpan of history
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