The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both ...

Camera as witness. Her accusation was about a public fantasy about a man and a beauty, Soyinka’s Lion and the Jewel, a beauty and a beast. That sort of fantasy can invoke rage. The rage about ...

The museum itself opened in 1910. The Lion Capital (c. 250 B.C.) is the jewel in the crown of treasures excavated here. That we have it in a damaged form detracts nothing from its consequence.