Skye Arundhati Thomas is joined by the scholar and historian Françoise Vergès to discuss the launch of their third book, on the painter Lalitha Lajmi (1932-2023), which is both an exploration of the artist’s use of psychoanalysis in her dream-journal inspired watercolours, and a critique of the ways in which modernity entered the home: nationalism as it was endured within the family unit, and how this tells one story of the inherent heartbreaks and failures of the moment of Indian decolonisation.

This talk coincides with Lalitha Lajmi’s first solo show at Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris.

More about the book here.