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Coffee With BS: Anjolie Ela Menon makes a case for gender equality in art

The huge prices in Indian art today are for the 'eight great big daddies of art, so maybe one should wait one's turn in the queue', Menon tells Pavan Lall

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Unlike most artists in the country today, Menon is outspoken on matters of national politics, social affairs and her idea of realpolitik | Illustration: Binay Sinha

Pavan Lall New Delhi

6 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2021 | 1:20 AM IST

There still exists a preference for face-to-face meetings as opposed to video calls, I learn, when Anjolie Ela Menon tells me on the telephone that she will only meet me after June 15, but in person at her home in New Delhi. That’s exactly where I find myself a few days after, visiting her at her apartment in Nizamuddin East.

Once inside, I'm greeted by Menon, petite in a printed silk maroon tunic, paired with pearls and her trademark bindi. Smiling and possessed of warm, intelligent eyes, which seem like they can turn hard in a second were the need

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