Aesthetics is not just about beauty, it’s about the distillation of a mood, an emotion, a thought, an ambience, a smell, a note, a colour based on the knowledge of the process of its creation. The Aesthetics Project held in Delhi over two days last month brought together national and international scholars, who spoke on new research in Indian aesthetics. “Their talks stemmed,” said Pramod Kumar of Eka Resources, the creative brain behind the project, “from a gamut of experiences, ideas, concepts and objects as depicted and seen through the filters of painting, connoisseurship, jewellery, architecture, ceramics and archaeology. Read more