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Love, loss and the sea: The mermaid in Southeast Asia’s Ramayana - Chandrica Barua recounts the story of Suvannamaccha, the Golden Mermaid, who appears in Southeast Asian depictions of the Ramayana.
The sacred and the spectacular: how Bengal’s Durga Puja pandals morph into temporary art galleries - Aishani Gupta from MAP Academy reports on one of the world's great artistic events, held on the streets of Kolkata, for the eyes of the gods.
Creative, collaborative communities: Forms of artist and artisan organisation in historic India - Rachna Shetty from the MAP Academy presents an overview of craft collectives through the history of India that have shaped and been shaped by its material, religious and social cultures
Hortus Malabaricus: How the garden of Malabar travelled the world - Rachna Shetty from MAP Academy presents a seventeenth-century Dutch botanical treatise about the Malabar coast that has been recently revived in India itself.
Blurred lines: Threshold floor drawings and their mediation between private and public - Alolika De from the MAP Academy presents the rich and constantly evolving variety of traditions involving threshold decoration in India.
Dancing bodies, moving touch: Textiles, materiality and touch in Indian dance - Krishna P Unny from the MAP Academy finds in Briana Blasko's photographs a testament to the intimate relationship between textiles and dance.
Surrounded by scent: Perfumery in the courtly cultures of early-modern South Asia - Simran Agarwal finds an extraordinarily elaborate culture of fragrance in India's Persianate world.
Weaving song, work and memory in Indian culture - MAP Academy reveals the intimate and authentic relationship between weaving and song in Indian culture. 
Staining lips red for centuries: The heart-shaped betel leaf - The MAP Academy share the rich ornamental culture involving the consumption of paan, stuffed betel leaf, in India.
Follow the algorithm: New journeys through the world of textiles - As part of Reinventing the Wheel, India's MAP Academy will present a new platform that helps in discovering new artworks and textile objects based on artificial intelligence.
Transforming the landscape into colour: India’s natural dyes - MAP Academy detail the development of India's iconic natural dyes: madder, indigo and lac.