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Shri Adwaita Garanayak,
Director General, NGMA

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Dr. Shashi Bala, Curator
(In-charge Information Technology and Publication)

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Concept, Design & Development

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S S Paul, Information Systems Manager,
Aniruddha Mukherjee, Systems Analyst
Yogesh Vats, Systems Analyst

Content Management

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Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Alpana Bharadwaj Despair
Acc. No. 14576 | Pencil & pastel on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Amina Kar An Abstract, 1968
Acc. No. 3405 | Graphic Print - lithograph

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Amrita Sher-Gil Self Portrait (3)
Acc. No. 1 | Oil on Paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anita Chakraborty Shakti
Acc. No. 13947 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anita Tanwar Indulge, 1998
Acc. No. 14647 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anjana Mehra Untitled- II, 1983
Acc. No. 12333 | Pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anjolie Ela Menon Mataji, 1983
Acc. No. 4675 | Oil on board

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anju Badhwar Towards Resurection
Acc. No. 12768 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anju Chaudhuri Sun and Landscape, 1984
Acc. No. 12210 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anju Chaudhuri Dufrene Play of half and whole
Acc. No. 3696 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anju Dodiya Ring - 2
Acc. No. 16314 | Charcoal and watercolour on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Annaporna S Sitaram Reminiscence
Acc. No. 14384 | Monoprint on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anu Gupta Fragments
Acc. No. 13077 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Anupam Sood Exhibit No. 9
Acc. No. 13765 | Collage on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Archana H. Hande Design, 1996
Acc. No. 14508 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Archana Kumar Untitled
Acc. No. 3910 | Pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Archana Mishra Sharma Composition - 1999
Acc. No. 14526 | Acquatint

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arpana Caur Mother, 1982
Acc. No. 11601 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arpita Dasgupta The Moonlit Shadows
Acc. No. 13666 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arpita Rani Gupta Earth Being
Acc. No. 14614 | Mixed media on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arpita Rani Sen Gupta Growing Passion - 2003
Acc. No. 16147 | Mixed Media

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arpita Singh Drawing- II, 1980
Acc. No. 3932 | Watercolour on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arputha Rani Sengupta Eagle Fly Cycle
Acc. No. 16146 | Mixed Media

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Aruna Rao Two Landscapes
Acc. No. 14356 | Watercolor on Paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Aruna Vinayak Purohit King of Industry
Acc. No. 2249 | Mixed Media

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Arundhati Roy Choudhury Vacant Moments
Acc. No. 2113 | Oil on board

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Banerjee, Maitryi Divine Flames
Acc. No. 2531 | Acrylic on board

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Bula Bhattacharya What To Do
Acc. No. 13724 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Bulbul Sharma Broken Sunlight
Acc. No. 13045 | Mixed media on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Bulbul Singh Brahmaand, 1986
Acc. No. 12630 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Chandrima Bhattacharya Corridors of Morbid Thoughts
Acc. No. 13654 | Pen and ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Chowla, Damyanti Paris - I
Acc. No. 12222 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Dayanita Singh Masterjee Series
Acc. No. 16379 | Photograph

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Devayani Krishna Abuse of Power No. 2, 1960
Acc. No. 3310 | Pastel on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Gargi Raina Untitled
Acc. No. 12963 | Watercolor on Paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Gauri Pant Dialogue In Silence
Acc. No. 13478 | Watercolor on Paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Ghosh, Rama Sea Beach
Acc. No. 2312 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

H. K. Arathi Untitled, 1998
Acc. No. 14504 | Acrylic and printing ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Hema Upadhyay Mixed Media
Acc. No. 16168 | The Red End

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Hemvati Guha Gossip
Acc. No. 13154 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Hiranandani, Sheela The World
Acc. No. 11540 | Silk Screen Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Jaishree Burman Untitled
Acc. No. 12593 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Jaya Appaswamy Asavari Ragini
Acc. No. 14694 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Jaya Ganguly Two figures
Acc. No. 12883 | Watercolour & ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Jaya Shree Chakravarty Untitled - 8
Acc. No. 16166 | Oil and acrylic on canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Jyoti Shukla Meta Scape
Acc. No. 14583 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Kavita Jaiswal Composition - 4
Acc. No. 12696 | Pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Kavita Nayar Reflection
Acc. No. 3936 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Komala Vardhan Nartaki
Acc. No. 12651 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Krishna Devayani "Ma" S. No. 8
Acc. No. 12618 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Latika Katt Sculpture
Acc. No. 3911 | Bronze

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Leela Mukherjee Bhogal Life
Acc. No. 11757 | Watercolor on Paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Lina Ghosh Nature-I
Acc. No. 14302 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Madhavi Parekh Durga
Acc. No. 14151 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Madhu Gupta Lord Krishna
Acc. No. 4638 | Graphic Print - etching

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Madhu Powel Life And Destiny
Acc. No. 2048 | Tempera on canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Mala Marwah Studio-II, 1976
Acc. No. 3743 | Pen and ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Malani Nalini Sleeping Woman
Acc. No. 3328 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Manisha Gera Baswani Time, 1996
Acc. No. 14339 | Gouache on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Manju Narain A Composition
Acc. No. 13679 | Pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Manju Prasad Landscape - 1
Acc. No. 13678 | Woodcut on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Meenakshi Kasliwal Bharati Homage to Jaisalmer - II
Acc. No. 14527 | Acrylic on canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Meenu Kulkarni Drawing, 1997
Acc. No. 14570 | Pen and ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Meera Mukherjee Spirit of Daily Work
Acc. No. 12669 | Bronze

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Mehra Anjana Untitled
Acc. No. 4527 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Menon Anjolie Ela Girl on a green bench
Acc. No. 3347 | Oil on board

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Mimi Chakravarti Graphic
Acc. No. 12208 | Graphic print

Work of Extraordinary Women

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Mridula Sinha Ambience
Acc. No. 12839 | Acrylic on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Mrinalini Mukherjee Rudra
Acc. No. 12571 | Hemp

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Mrs. Gogi Sarojpal Untitled
Acc. No. 4526 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Naina Dalal She (No.1)
Acc. No. 4108 | Graphic print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Naina Kanodia The Tourists
Acc. No. 14519 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Nandini Golden City Houses- 19
Acc. No. 14438 | Colour on handmade paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Nasreen Mohammedi Untitled
Acc. No. 12575 | Pen and ink on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Nutan Mathur Composition II, 1977
Acc. No. 3550 | Graphic print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Nutanbala Abandoned
Acc. No. 2028 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Padmini Bhatia Alberi
Acc. No. 2264 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Poovaiah Rani Life Unto Life
Acc. No. 2378 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Prabha Panwar Mangal Dhwani
Acc. No. 1766 | Tempera on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Prabha Shah The Alcove, 1984
Acc. No. 11735 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Prajakta Potnis Flower Pots
Acc. No. 16186 | Gouache on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Pratibha Dakoji Untitled
Acc. No. 3917 | Pencil Drawing on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Pratibha Devraj Coloured Etching, 1981
Acc. No. 11855 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Preeti Tamot Nature, 1991
Acc. No. 13575 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Pushpa Rau Head
Acc. No. 13088 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Raina Gargi There is only one hour left for Eight O'clock
Acc. No. 13223 | Acrylic on canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rajshree Karkera Untitled
Acc. No. 14222 | Watercolour on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Reena Saini Kallat Nights Watch
Acc. No. 16188 | Acrylic on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rekha Rodwittiya The Visitation, 1986
Acc. No. 12536 | Mixed media on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Renuka Kar Landscape- Shantiniketan
Acc. No. 15711 | Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rima Kundu A Love story of Bouncha Bunchi
Acc. No. 16066 | Watercolor, line drawing on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rini Dhumal Coalmines
Acc. No. 12587 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rohini Babar To the extreme
Acc. No. 13082 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rubina Ali Untitled - 2 (Wave) 1992
Acc. No. 13582 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Rummana Hussain Apna Utsav
Acc. No. 12656 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Samita Nag Pakhiwala
Acc. No. 14422 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sangeeta An Adventure, 1983
Acc. No. 11758 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sapna Untitled- I, 1994
Acc. No. 14602 | Mixed Media

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sarbari Roy Chowdhury Ram Kinkar
Acc. No. 11999 | Metal

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Saroj Pal Gogi Healing Touch, 1981
Acc. No. 4024 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Savitri Paul Family Photograph
Acc. No. 14537 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Seema Ghurayya Untitled- 2, 1991
Acc. No. 13580 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sen Shukla Untitled
Acc. No. 4528 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Shanu Lahiri The Face
Acc. No. 12298 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sheela Kubchandani Slide No. 4
Acc. No. 12695 | Silk Screen Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sheila Makhijani Untitled
Acc. No. 16119 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Shiromoni Devi Untitled
Acc. No. 3498 | Drawing on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Shobha Baroota Origin Ten
Acc. No. 12983 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Shobha Ghare The Earth
Acc. No. 13001 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Shreyasi Chatterjee Crossroad-4, 2004
Acc. No. 16318 | Stitch on sari and fabric

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sonia Dembla Landscape
Acc. No. 4577 | Collage

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sooni Taraporevala The Mystic Piano Tuner Mr. Ratnagar, Bombay, 1985
Acc. No. 16810 | Pigment print (Photograph)

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Subha Ghose Sleep Child Sleep
Acc. No. 13693 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sudheshna Sengupta Face- I
Acc. No. 11977 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sukla Sen Poddar She
Acc. No. 13100 | Lithograph Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sunayani Devi Lakshmi
Acc. No. 354 | Wash and tempera on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Suneela Bindra Hurtling Calm, 1978
Acc. No. 3754 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Suneela Chopra Portrait of a Lady- II, 1990
Acc. No. 13388 | Mixed media on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Surjeet Kaur Darar
Acc. No. 12984 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Surjit Akre Professional Model
Acc. No. 12540 | Charcoal & pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Sushma Biyani Portrait of a Man-I, 1985
Acc. No. 12307 | Pencil on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Suvra Chatterjee The Window II
Acc. No. 13644 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Uma Adivrekar Composition
Acc. No. 14228 | Collage on paper

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Uma Siddhanta Of Mortality An Enternity
Acc. No. 13064 | Bronze

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Usha Biswas Inner Space
Acc. No. 13883 | Mixed Media

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Vasundhara Tewari Deep Sleep
Acc. No. 3628 | Monoprint on paper with stencil

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Veena Bhargava Pavement - VIII, 1976
Acc. No. 3575 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Vijaya Bagai Falling Bricks- I
Acc. No. 11869 | Oil on Canvas

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Vishakha Apte Untitled
Acc. No. 13898 | Etching Print

Work of Extraordinary Women

NGMA India

Zarina Hashmi Cities
Acc. No. 16328 | Woodcut print on Japanese paper

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Concept Note

The Soul Speaker | Curator of Lives
Celebrating International Women’s Day

"A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change" As international women’s day is celebrated around the world, an agreed fact is that it is a day when women in general are recognized for their achievements regardless of divisions, nationality or ethnicity, linguistic variations, background or economic status. After a journey so long, international women’s day has assumed a new global dimension for women around the world. The international women’s movement is growing into a full fledged expression. In the year 1848, indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti slavery convention, two American – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized congregation of few hundred people and that was America’s first ever women’s rights convention, in New York. New Zealand was the first self governing nation to allow women voting. In 1920, in the first known campaign of it’s kind the Egyptian society of physicians went against tradition of Female Genital Mutilation, to declare it harmful for female. "Woman is a full circle. She has the power to create, Nurture and Transform". Understanding her is a mystery and it will require lots of perseverance and knowledge. Woman is symbol of love, sacrifice, care and enabler of growth. The able woman nurtures life making her the strongest being. She’s a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife within a single body. Women down the ages were victims of oppression, and were deprived of their due respect while they were the real agents to bring in changes to any environment. They persist, they exist even when nothing is going in their favor. Women these days are more vocal, empowered and aware of their abilities and having greater stake at their rights, which society too, has accepted. The change is visible. Fields like education, healthcare, justice system, politics are no more confined to male only. Presence of female gender is distinctly observable and social elements has agreed upon the new phenomena of empowering women. The scenario of Bharatbarsha was entirely different during Vedic period to the period when invaders intruded our society- destroying the fabric of it. During ancient era, women here were treated at per with men and our society treated her with honor. Prominence of women were found at every layer of the society and they had proven their ability, lived a full life. It is Bharatbarsha where women were revered and placed at the topmost position when they were praised and worshiped as ‘Devi’ the ritual still continues to this day. However, with the invasion of foreign enemies, with their destructive way of life and imposing mindsets, new kind of vices too infiltrated our society. They have imposed their values which still are mostly materialistic, with orientation to give and take, over our own values and impregnated deep within – bringing ill effect to an existing mature civilization. From Devi Durga to Radhika, from Arundhati to Savitree, from LakshmiBai AhalyaBai to Matangini Hazra, the women were at the forefront- respected and revered in India which slowly started showing symptoms of foreign influences which in turn lead the society to treat women as a product and without honor. The struggle of the female gender was long, it is still on, but they are lot more agile, united and rejuvenated to achieve. Legislation proposed, movements are designed, agreed that women deserve their place in society to their merit, hence, International Women’s Day is celebrated all over the world. It’s not any other day, it’s a day to appreciate, accept and shower goodwill to those women who are in fact- Curator of our lives.
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Virtual Tour

The Soul Speakers | Curator of Lives
The saga of women in modern Indian Art and contextual Modernism.
The Virtual Tour titled “The Soul Speakers | Curator of Lives” is designed to commemorate the celebration of Women’s Day on 8th March 2021. Women around the world celebrate this very day while it is quite visible that they have attained a state when they are claiming a place in every possible spheres that exist today in any society, any country. And they are not there to be mere present but announcing the glory via their dedication devotion and quality work which speaks in volume about the journey they had traversed. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi has many works of the women artists at its own collection which is definitely a major portion of the museum's collection of NGMA. Like in other spheres, women artists had shown their enormous potential in the art atmosphere and chiseled names in painting, sculpture, Etching, Print Making and every other field of artistic groups where they are second to none. This virtual tour will showcases various women artists creation from the collection of NGMA containing 130 works of art, and I’m sure the visitors will appreciate these works and we also acknowledge all those women artists who's work isn't reflecting on this virtual tour due to shortage of time. I, further, take pride of the tireless effort of our IT Section who conceive and conceptualize this idea of launching this Virtual Tour while design and development was done by them during World Women’s Day on 8th March 2021. I wish everyone will enjoy this effort. Adwaita Charan Garanayak
Director General