I have long advocated for the epistolary form of communication. Letters, with their deliberate pace and tangible traces - hesitations and idiosyncratic marks - reflect a uniquely human form of connection. They cultivate intimacy: each carries the writer's presence, signaling, "I thought of you." This gesture initiates a relational dynamic, as the writer anticipates the recipient's response. Your recently curated exhibition, Chitthi Aayi Hai - Letter has arrived (O Art Space, ongoing) – foregrounds this communicative potential. The title itself suggests anticipation and connection, evoking the experience of a letter's arrival and underscoring the social nature of correspondence.

Art functions as a transhistorical form of correspondence. Before museums, image-making was itself a means of communication. The earliest cave marks - never intended for gallery walls or museums - were messages. Through symbols, animal depictions and handprints, early humans established........

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