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      <title>The Weight of a Name</title>
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      <category>Looking at Art</category>
      <description><![CDATA[We read the title before we see the painting. How names guide, limit or open up what a work can be.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>Rasa and Resonance</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Art Philosophy &amp; Tradition</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Rasa, the Indian theory of aesthetic experience, as a way to read contemporary painting, from Abhinavagupta to Mylapore.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>The Ethics of Looking</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Looking is not passive. On attention, humility, context and the habit of coming back to a painting again.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>Gesture, Impasto and Intent</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Artists &amp; Technique</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Speed, pressure, hesitation, confidence: how a painter's hand stays in the surface, and how to read it.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>The Problem With Masterpieces</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Collecting Guides</category>
      <description><![CDATA["Masterpiece" flattens how we judge art. A case for fidelity, conviction and walls of paintings you truly know.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>The Architecture of Looking</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Living with Art</category>
      <description><![CDATA[A painting is never self-contained. How ceilings, light, walls, movement and furniture shape the way we see it.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>Colour as Language</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Artists &amp; Technique</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Before subject or composition, colour speaks. On palettes, culture, the physical paint and the light a work lives in.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>From the Walls of the Gallery to the Walls of the Collector's Home</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Living with Art</category>
      <description><![CDATA[A painting leaves the studio once but arrives many times. How frames, light, sequence and story change what we see.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>The Collector's Eye</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Collecting Guides</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Nobody is born with taste. How the collector's eye is trained through looking, dialogue, discomfort and honest mistakes.]]></description>
      <author>Devika Timayya</author>
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      <title>The Quietness of a Canvas</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <category>Looking at Art</category>
      <description><![CDATA[Negative space is not an absence waiting to be filled. On restraint, scale and why a quiet canvas can hold a room.]]></description>
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