Satish Padmanabhan, Managing Editor of The Outlook Magazine gives a warm welcome to all the artists and writers present here. ‘Museum is a place where one should lose one’s mind,’ Renzo Piano once said.
Sadly museums in India are not seen as exciting places, we think of them as dark places. Museums like Bihar Museum are changing that. It is an alive and active place.
At Outlook, we have actively sought artists, writers, and singers to be part of our reporting and covers. So many artists have done covers for us, including Ravinder Reddy who will be present at a panel discussion today. These are political covers - climate change, gender violence, and caste atrocities. It is revealing how political art it is. That is where we fit in
