She doesn’t know anything about art. And she won’t tell you what she likes

At the 2011 Art Summit, when photographer Ram Rahman introduced Ebrahim Alkazi to Neha Kirpal, the 86-year-old collector made a production of falling at Neha’s feet. Other people may express their admiration in more restrained ways, but Kirpal is one of the most well-liked people in the Indian art world. What makes it rather extraordinary is that she says (without any trace of defensiveness or inverted snobbery) to anyone who asks that she knows nothing about art. But this 30-year-old has been responsible for the single biggest shot of energy that the Indian art world has ever received.

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