Events

2026

The Archetypal Artist makes its presence felt at the World Book Fair for the third consecutive year, Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, Delhi 10-18 Jan 2026

10-18 Jan 2026

Sexuality, Feminism & Rebellion: Discussion on Souza’s art with Dr Meera Dass, Bhopal Literature Festival, 11 January 2026

2025

Elated to see my book in the showcase window of my publishing house booth at the World Book Fair, Delhi 1-9 Feb 2025

1-9 Feb 2025

Goa Art & Literature Festival — Book launch and discussion with Reema Gehi Desai, February 2025

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist, panel discussion with Dr Alka Pande & Needhish Tyagi at IIC, India International Centre, May 2025

Souza’s Modernism: Decolonising Art History, conversation with Annapurna Garimella at Bangalore International Centre, June 2025

Oxford Art Book Award in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi, 06 August 2025

Interaction at the University of Penn and an interlude with my book at the Penn Libraries, The Fisher Fine Arts Library, 28 August 2025

Princeton University & the interlude with The Archetypal Artist on the shelves of the Marquand library, 29 August 2025

Museum of Modern Art, conversation over lunch at the MoMA Cafe 02 September 2025

Cheerful bonhomie over lunch! engaging conversation at the MoMA cafe; the awesome foursome in the photo, it’s the 3 of us. The curator had to leave, pressing work summons

At the Butler Library, Columbia University, an interlude with my book, 03 September 2025

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist at Sotheby’s 945 Madison Ave, New York 04 September 2025

Soft book launch by Aroon Shivdasani, Ex Director Indo-American Arts Council, 517 East 87th Street, Manhattan York Ave NY 03 September 2025

Smithsonian Institution, FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist makes it to the National Museum of Asian Art, National Mall Washington DC 08 September 2025

Interlude with FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist at the Asian Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC 12 Sep 2025

the golden gilded corridor leading to the Asian Library is open exclusively to members of the Congress & Researchers of the Asian Library 😊😘 While the members meeting room is spectacular, the Asian library is a beautiful haven combining dazzling architecture, the ornate embellishments and rich collection of books, rare books and manuscripts. A great rendezvous with the Archetypal Artist in the splendid setting

Registered researcher at the Library of Congress, The Frick Art Research Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2025 – 2029

Met my book at The Met, Thomas J Watson library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 01 October 2025

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist at New York University & the New York Public Library 30 Sep 2025

30 September 2025

Janeita Singh, in collaboration with SACHI, presents her book, FN Souza : The Archetypal Artist at Palo Alto Art Centre, San Francisco, 12 th Oct 2025 – 😊After this post, one more event – Podcast recording of my book, FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist with Robert Carriger and Claire Kohne at the Carl Jung Institute of San Francisco 14 Oct 2025😊

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Psycho-Spiritual Underpinnings of FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist — with Janeita Singh, hosted by Friends of Carl Jung, McGowan House, Monterey, CA

My Catalogue essay titled, “Love Longing and Letting Go” at Waswo X Waswo’s exhibition, “The Darkness and the Star” Bikaner House, Delhi 04 December 2025

Colouring Outside the Lines: Discussion on FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist; Bangalore Literature Festival 6-7 December 2025

2024

The pre-launch of FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist at Lalit Kala Delhi 07 Feb 2024

My book at the exhibition Reminiscing Souza: An iconoclastic vision at Lalit Kala Academi; Souza’s first book & the latest book on Souza; Words & Lines: FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist; A significant display! 03 – 15 Feb 2024

The Archetypal Artist at the World Book Fair Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, Delhi 10-18 Feb 2024

My book at the “World Book Fair” 10-18 Feb 2024

Book launch at Dogears Bookstore, Goa, in conversation with Rinald D’ Souza 11 May 2024

Post-independence India’s most controversial artist, Francis Newton Souza challenged the aesthetic and moral sensibilities of the human social order. The uneasy space in his art “troubled social comfort by its transgression of taboos”

Janeita Singh’s “magisterial treatise” on his work and life, titled ‘FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist’, “is timely and epic in its research” Janeita brings to focus Souza’s pursuit of wholeness and beauty in nature, which isn’t in the eye of the beholder but in the cultivated eye.

For a wider discussion of her work, join us for a conversation with Janeita Singh, *on Saturday, 11th May, at 5pm at The Dogears Bookshop*. Janeita will be in conversation with Rinald D’Souza, who, apart from his current research, reads on South Asian art history, and recently co-edited a book on The Jesuits, Goa and the Arts.

Engaging time at the beautiful, intimate setting at Dogears, host to national/ international authors and readers!

Museum of Goa book launch; in conversation with Lina Vincent 07 July 2024

*MOG SUNDAYS* This is a conversation between Author & Critic Janeita Singh and Art Historian & Curator Lina Vincent on the book, the illustrated monograph, FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist Niyogi Books Tultul Niyogi based on a 12-year research project, that began in 2012. The magnetism of the primordial imagery in Souza’s art “hooked me” says Janeita Singh. “Janeita brings together fascinating threads of philosophical, religious and artistic practices in her essays that let us slowly soak in the multiple layers of Souza’s art”. She is an academician turned literary-art critic. Her writing based on the belief, ‘critic as an artist’ generates new perspectives of ways of seeing. Lina Vincent is an independent art historian & curator. Since 2009, the focus areas of her research have extended to projects with arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions and folk arts in India, and environmental consciousness in the arts.

Great session MOG SUNDAYS – 07 JULY 2024

Shout out to Subodh Kerkar & the MOG team for hosting my book talk. & thanks to special efforts by Lina Vincent Nilankur Das Tultul Niyogi Trisha Niyogi for the success of the event.

Souza’s Radical Art — a presentation hosted by Friends of Carl Jung, Monterey 17 July 2024

Monterey San Francisco 17 July 2024

My next book talk on FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist. is hosted by Monterey Friends of CG Jung This meeting is available live online. To join online, please contact for a Zoom link: http://jungmonterey.org/contact. For in-person attendance, you can just reach 381 High Street (Mc Gowan House) Monterey, CA. Tultul Niyogi

Xavier Centre of Historical Research — book launch and discussion with Delio Mendonca 01 Aug 2024

01 August 2024

Yoking with Jung” @BSAP The Souza – Jung coupling; A seminar on my book Souza: The Archetypal Artist 14 September 2024

Khushwant Singh Literary Festival 18-20 October 2024

A Museum & an Artist: Conversation with Tasneem Zakaria & Veerangana Solanki at Khushwant Singh Literature Festival

18-20 October 2024

Dinner at Raj Villa: Late Shri Khuswant Singh’s house in Kasauli 20 Oct 2024

It was a privilege to be invited to the dinner party at Raj Villa (Khushwant Singh’s home in Kasauli where he did his best writing) hosted by Rahul Singh & Niloufer Bilimoria on the last evening of KSLF.

A few photos of his library, writing room, the sleeping space and the garden with the crackling bonfire, where I danced to my heart’s content under the moonlight and the rustling pine trees.

Khushwant Singh’s definitive work, A HISTORY OF THE SIKHS has occupied a place of pride on my bookshelf. The Illustrated Weekly of yore was avidly read in our house due to its esoteric content, diverse and wide coverage of interdisciplinary matter et al.

Khushwant Singh lived his personal myth, bold and brave. He was a man of letters, who had the audacity to embrace the personal and collective shadow, a thrust towards wholesomeness rather than perfection (perfection is for the gods). He straddled the dichotomy of being larger than life and yet grounded and empathetic.

I never met him, but his writings and persona were pervasive in our lives. My mother would often recount how our ancestors were friends and had professional dealings with each other.

KS and FN Souza are ‘peas in a pod’, unfettered spirits, who spoke their mind fearlessly. The mark of great thinkers is the ability to map unchartered territory, to go into zones of silence and to come back with something to say. Their agenda was about truth and renewed patterns of thought in everyday living. Feels like I am back from a pilgrimage.

Honoured with a Bountiful Tree +The exquisite phulkari, ‘floral work’ folk embroidery of the Punjab region at Kasauli Club + Breakfasts at Glenview (hospitality partner of KSLF); Meeting with friends

KSLF) : Meeting friends old & New.

The Provocative Palette — discussion with Asad Lalljee & Kamini Sawhney, Mumbai Li Live 15-17 Nov 2024

Mumbai Literature Live 15 November 2024

Book launch & conversation based on my book FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist. The culmination of a 12-year research project, that brings a new perspective to Souza’s radical art practice. A critical study through a feminist and Jungian lens. In essence the making of new consciousness, and renewal of collective human thought. The panel will focus on Souza’s unique and inimitable works that hold a mirror to our repressed and rejected notions. Tabling new perspectives rooted in interdisciplinary research the panelists deliberate upon his radical art, sometimes shocking, at times bewildering and at all times surprising.