The ‘Ass Festival’ Against the Upper CasteDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia25 July 2024The subversive Kunde Habba in rural Kodagu, India bears disturbing signs of the carnivalesque-grotesque theory
India’s True-Crime ProblemDeepa BhasthiArtReview08 May 2024In India, true-crime documentaries are deployed to reinforce patriarchal fantasies
In Today’s India, You Really Are What You EatDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia22 March 2024The myth of food being the cause for characteristic traits is extended in politics and popular culture, and that’s why you might sometimes need to lie about it
An Affair in KeralaDeepa BhasthiArtReview18 March 2024‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’ by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari tells a provincial story in the daily dystopia of Hindutva-led India
The Politics of Hate in IndiaDeepa BhasthiArtReview27 October 2023As a recent publication details the impacts of Islamophobia in India, Deepa Bhasthi asks if it’s already too late
Modi’s March on CultureDeepa BhasthiArtReview Asia18 September 2023This age of new nationalisms and reformulated identity politics makes it more important than ever to have a sense of what culture really is
The Troubled Ethics of India’s Contemporary Art SceneDeepa Bhasthiartreview.com08 August 2023Artists in India are increasingly faced with a dilemma as state intervention in galleries and museums becomes ever-more brazen