

PROFILES
28 The Progressive Artists’ Group and Silpi Chakra responded to social cataclysms and modernity at large in post-Partition India in several special ways, says Shukla Sawant.
31 A lack of ideological clarity did the Calcutta Group in, asserts Partha Roy.
32 Sandhya Bordewekar travels back in time to trace the rise and fall of Group 1890.

34 Geeta Doctor follows the evolution of the Cholamandal Artists’ Village.
36 From Blank Noise to Jaaga, there is a wide array of collectives in Bangalore, notes Marta Jakimowicz.

40 How do moving images document social histories and what are the limits of these records? Sandhini Poddar introduces us to the Desire Machine Collective.
44 Whether they stand for ‘Community Art or Moral Programs’ or ‘Culture Among Marginal Peripheries’, art and activism mix well in CAMP’s projects, discovers Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.
47 The Clark House Initiative is the youngest collective to hit the art world. Nivedita Magar takes notice.
49 How does The Otolith Group hope to shake viewers out of the spell cast by capitalism? Zehra Jumabhoy investigates.
INTERVIEW
52 For more than a decade, KHOJ has unstintingly offered space and support to experimental art, Pooja Sood tells Meera Menezes.
LETTER FROM PAKISTAN
54 It’s the individual versus the group, complains Quddus Mirza as he records the successes and failures of collectives in his country.
REVIEWS
74 Bako and Bapu meet each other in their dreams. And in Atul Dodiya’s paintings. Abhay Sardesai plays observer.

77 Bodies in different avatars find their way into two shows at Gallery Maskara. Subuhi Jiwani checks them out.
78 Huma Mulji opens a box of memories and a boxed-up past. Shiladitya Sarkar bears witness.
80 How do we home in on different versions of home? Latika Gupta writes about a show curated by Girish Shahane at the Devi Art Foundation.
82 A house for Aradhana Seth: Varsha Reshamwala gets a view from the gallery.
REPORT
82 Subuhi Jiwani takes a walk through the India Art Festival, Mumbai.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS
84 How do colonialism and architecture speak to each other in Seher Shah’s works? Elena Glasberg and Jasbir K. Puar assemble the patterns of confrontation.
86 Akshaya Tankha spots the Raqs Media Collective drawing a bridge between art and mathematics.
88 Love is What You Want, declares Tracey Emin. Sandhya Bordewekar agrees.
INTERNATIONAL REPORT
90 Art as a mode of disaster management? Meera Menezes gathers evidence at the Yokohama Triennale.
106 LISTINGS