Kashish Raj Sharma
Kashish Raj Sharma is a 75% visually impaired postgraduate scholar of anthropology and an abstract artist whose work explores gender, embodiment, visual culture and social power.
Politics of female body in art: India’s Dancing Girl to canvas
In June 2026 a government textbook covered the torso of the 4,500-year-old Dancing Girl. Kashish Raj Sharma, a painter and anthropologist, traces how art has treated the female body, from Indian goddesses to the French Revolution, and why that matters for classrooms, violence statistics and women’s autonomy in India today.
