Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation. Quotes I think after the colonial encounter there is clearly a rupture in that continuity. And I think its the consequences of that rupture that Indian artists had to tackle and work around in the last hundred years. About Modern Indian Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnjt34Mpr6A&list=PLPahQu0Yh9xDgnKMM1wq7hP9J7xULD4vP&index=4 The Paintings of India - Development of the Modern Idiom Part -I National Doordarshan 16 July 2014 youtube.com live 18 January 2022 I think the traditional conception of beauty has had a great deal to do with the imperative of harmony, bringing about of harmony or accord between the viewer, what is perceived and the essence of that experience. And somehow with the onset of modernity, it appears that the possibilities of harmony become diminished in some way. So what the art experience would aim at is not necessarily the savoring of beauty, but possibly the recognition of terror. So rather than the beautiful, I think the states of being that come into play now are much more those of the grotesque. And a great deal of contemporary Indian art is really addressed towards these states. And I can't help but think that this is one of the inevitable outcomes of what you might call the experience of modernity, which is one of fragmentation of alienation, and of the general breakdown of what traditionally would be seen as harmonic systems of being. About Modern Indian Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFp8gfYndqk&list=PLqtVCj5iilH468laeMFbvi5lR2Hb5rTbV&index=4 The Paintings of India - Development of the Modern Idiom Part 2 National Doordarshan 16 July 2014 youtube.com live 12 May 2026 In Episode 23, 12:37 - 14:03 External links Category:Poets from India Category:Curators Category:Art critics Category:1969 births Category:Living people