India, Sept. 13 -- At Delhi Art Week, galleries turn Bikaner House into a fierce defence of fading ecological history

Have societies completely lost the ability to comprehend the shifting winds and the erased histories of the natural world? The crisis of a collapsing climate and the forced silence surrounding marginalised botanical knowledge suddenly break through the noise. This thematic reckoning anchors the ninth edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week.

Across the halls of Bikaner House, audiences come face to face with the physical reality of a broken environment in Bye-Bye Monsoon. Curated by Adwait Singh, this segment pulls from Amitav Ghosh's documentation of a freak 1978 Delhi tornado to map a broader ecological collapse, connect...