[2][3][4] Each year, apart from its four magazine issues it also publishes a book every quarter, and a few special publications on the subject of Indian and related art and heritage.

[3] In the 1930s, Mulk Raj Anand had moved to England, to a flourishing literary career.

After World War II, he returned to India, at the juncture of its independence and started Marg magazine with "seven ads and two rooms" provided by J. R. D. Tata and with Anil de Silva from Sri Lanka as assistant editor and art historian, Karl J. Khandalavala as an advisor.

The aim was to bring Indian art into world focus[2][5] It was in the pages of the magazine that architect Charles Correa and his colleagues first presented their proposal for a dream city in Mumbai, then Bombay, "New Bombay", later translated into policy.

[4] Its offices are situated in the historic Army & Navy Building in Kala Ghoda, Mumbai's premier art district.