One early morning in mid December we left to uncover research the Bhil and Rathwa tribes. Bhuribai the welll known Bhil artist travelled with us.It was a long and comfortable drive to Jhabua. On on…
About the Baiga Baiga tribe of central India is one of the most primitive tribe of India. The Baiga tribes used to practice shifting cultivation in forest areas without using the plough.They used to have…
Warli Artists In Lyon in May 2015“Duppata ” is a NGO based in south of France that works for women empowerment in India.They have exhibitions annually of tribal and folk paintings of India at various…
Book launch of childrens book ‘L’elephant Volant’The idea to make a childrens book based on this Gond Folklore happened in 2013 when I was in Paris for the presentation for “Verncular India” hosted by Gallerie…
Presentation on Four Tribal Women Artists of Central India In 2014 I was invited by the Indian Embassy in Paris to talk about the eminent women artists of central India.I picked out, two Gond ,…
I facilitated and conducted a two day workshop for the boys at” The Doon School” Dehradun.The workshop was supervised by Rajendra Shyam. It was a wonderful experience working with the children.The boys were very excited to develop their own…
To understand a painting or to get into the mind of an artist, one has to often understand his roots.The place where his or her heart belongs.This was my first trip to Mandla district to…
A group show of five Gond artists was held at Gitanjali Art Gallery, Panjim , Goa.The artists that participated were Raju Shyam, Manoj Tekam, Hiraman Urveti, Ramesh Tekam and Rajendra Kumar Shyam.The painting of Peacock and…
I organised and facilitated an workshop at Welham Girls School.Artist Rajendra Shyam and Artist Santosh Maravi guided the students.The story of the “The Flying Elephant” , was to be pictorially depicted. It was wonderful to see the various creations by…
For both of us it is important that our architecture speaks of our deepest collective memory…while the executed commissions differ in response to particular clients’ needs and the challenges and opportunities posed by individual sites…
The journey that brought me here to this juncture, to this point of discovery and adventure, started in the summer of 1988! It was the first day of college and I was nervously looking around…
