The Tale of the Talking Face Books

The Tale of the Talking Face BooksIn The Tale of the Talking Face, eminent Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, despite her ambition of progress for her country. A thinly veiled satire on the political drama of 1970s India, The Tale of the Talking Face is a universal record of the ever deepening crisis of democracy and

continually changing work of one of our greatest living artists

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

the surprising and provocative contents of this book have been provided by an exceptional and varied group of experts

A first-of-its-kind exploration of Indian art made since 1900

He began his career when newsrooms had typewriters but gradually

The gaze of thermal vision

Lantian Xie

columnists and writers Ranjona Banerjee

in relation to which the artist juxtaposes himself in moments of elision and dissonance

His resulting speech

Keenan Pereira

is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o offers in The Upright Revolution