This is Indian art’s golden moment.

Having made a big splash at the Venice Biennale after seven years, Indian art is ready for its next major milestone with yet another landmark exhibition: ‘The Meeting Ground’, presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) at Christie’s London. An impressive survey bridging “modern and contemporary practices with folk and indigenous artistic traditions from South Asia,” it is perhaps the biggest showcase of Indian artists since ‘The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998’ at the Barbican Centre, London, in 2024. Such exhibitions are cultural milestones that declare to the world: This is Indian art.

It is. Except, that is not all it should be. Indian art today is vast, yet we keep circling back to a select few 20th-century names, mostly from the Progressive Artists’ Group. While this canon earned Indian art its global recognition, returning to them for nearly every international presentation stagnates the narrative. Even for contemporary names, the gamble pretty much stops at the........

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