India's first major private museum of modern and contemporary art, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi reopens on 5 January 2021 after a period of closure in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. I speak to Akansha Rastogi, Senior Curator (Exhibitions & Programs), KNMA about a decade of institutional programming, her own curatorial practice within the museum space and of course the stakes and possibilities of the museum as a political and social site in 2020, now 2021, against the backdrop of movements for racial and caste justice and COVID-19 crisis. Click here to access the image guide: https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-1.  Credits: Producer: Tunak Teas Design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Marketing: Dipalie Mehta Musical arrangement: Jayant Parashar Audio: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0] Images: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair References: Saloni Mathur, India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display. University of California Press, 2007. Nancy Adajania, ‘New Media Overtures before New Media Practice in India’, in Gayatri Sinha (ed.), Art and Visual Culture in India 1857-2007 (Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2009).