Publications Books & Journals
Flower Shower Book – The Culture of Flowers in India- 2019
Flowers are part and parcel of our lives, from birth to death, as offerings, as blessings, as adornment, as medicine, as food and also as a sign of love and sharing. Over the years, with the critical readings of fragrances, we see how aromas can evoke memory, how they are responded to by different genders and how floral perfumes also become mediators of desire and pleasure. And it is through an exploration of the floral essence that new perceptions and interpretations of flowers can be read in the book.
Body Sutra – 2019
Body Sutra celebrates the body by capturing both its beauty and divinity in an artistic-cum-historical journey. The book is inarguably the definitive and a truly authoritative work on the literary and artistic representation of the body, and combines rare Indian literature with the most stunning visual documentation of the body ever. It traces the shifting patterns of the representations of the body through 5,000 years of history, from the ancient to the contemporary.
Raja Ravi Varma – 2018
Discover the lives of ground-breaking Indian artists, from their childhoods, full of dreams, realised through passion, perseverance and personality. Inspired by the life of Raja Ravi Verma, born in 1913 in India to a princely family, this book tells the story of this journey and experiences as an artist. His paintings, steeped in Indian culture and iconography, gave the gods a face.
Amrita Shergil : The Immortal Girl – 2017
Discover the lives of ground-breaking Indian artists, from their childhoods, full of dreams, realised through passion, perseverance, and personality. Inspired by the life of Amrita Shergil, born in 1913 in India to Indo-Hungarian parents, this book tells the story of her journey and experiences as an artist. Her beauty, free-spiritedness, and courage won her many friends wherever she went, and her spirit is immortalised in her paintings, richly enjoyed by audiences even today.
Panchtattvas: The Road Ahead. Edited by Dr Alka Pande Niyogi Books, New Delhi – 2017
The book serves as a living document to the month-long photography exhibition Photosphere 2016. Sustainable development has its own constituency of thought in the Indian subcontinent. Since striving towards solutions was also key, five distinct and distinguished experts— Dr Ajay Mathur, Amba Jamir, Madhav Gadgil, Mike Pandey, Sunita Narain—from across the sphere of sustainable development have contributed their writing to the book.
Divine Gesture: The Magnificence of Mewar Spirituality, Penguin Random House – 2016
The book is undoubtedly an important art historical document, the book serves as a catalogue for the 308 sculptures that are a part of the collections of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF), Udaipur.
Musicscapes: The Multiple Emotions of Indian Music – Curated and Edited by Dr. Alka Pande, Roli Books, New Delhi – 2016
The book features Shoba Deepak Singh’s unerring eye to the world of music. It works closely on the heels of Theatrescapes and Dancescapes.
Theatrescapes: Experience Rasas – Edited by Dr. Alka Pande – 2014
The book essays the 30 years journey of the visual archivist Shobha Deepak Singh in the theatre after post-Independence. The collection of photographs in the book is a parallel archive to the more academic readings of the theatre with a marvellous documentation of the passions, emotions and spectacle.