People often call me a textile historian or a revivalist, and I am neither,” Mayank Mansingh Kaul declares emphatically. Seated on a divan inside the Visual Arts Gallery at New Delhi’s India Habitat Centre, the setting is entirely apt for a conversation on his life and work as a textile designer, archivist, researcher, writer and curator.
The divan is part of the set-up for “Crossroads: Textile Journeys with Ritu Kumar”, an ongoing exhibition that Kaul has curated. He points at a lush pink paithani sari. “That was made for the royal families of Gujarat. One ...
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First Published: Fri, April 06 2018. 21:05 IST
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