The Power of the Handmade: Indian Artisans at Homo Faber & Anjolie Ela Menon's Seven Decades

On this episode of NDTV's Masterstroke Art Show, we travel to Venice for the Homo Faber Biennial, where 30 Indian craft artists and ateliers take centre stage alongside the world's finest makers, with support from the JSW Foundation. What does karigar really mean and why should Indian handmade traditions be seen not simply as craft, but as contemporary art? We meet the makers preserving extraordinary skills and explore why commissioning artisans may be the most meaningful way to secure the future of handmade India.

Then, in the quiet intimacy of Anjolie Ela Menon's Nizamuddin studio, we look back across seven decades of an extraordinary artistic life-from her beginnings as a child prodigy and her Paris frescoes to the recurring presence of the divine feminine, empty chairs, crows, jharokhas and the quiet rebellion of the nude.
A journey through skill, memory and imagination and a celebration of the enduring power of the human hand.