Consider the mica tablets that European travellers to India sent back home between 1750 and 1857. Each set of six or more tablets cost around 2 rupees 10 annas, and captured an array of Indian ...

Mica is sourced from more than 35 countries, mainly India, Madagascar, China, South Africa and Brazil. Mining it is an extremely labour-intensive process that requires going into narrow caves that ...

An exhibition in the city showcases small, fragile mica paintings, revealing how Indian artists transformed translucent muscovite—a type of mica often mislabelled as talc by the British—into ...