"…my inspiration had taken too strong a hold to leave me."

"Hailing from a conservative Marwari family, I was born in Calcutta on November 5, 1969. For the last ten years I have been engaged in painting Warli-style art, a fine art tradition from rural Maharastra reflective of the daily life of village folks. While cities are stress points of change, villages still retain their original spirit of changelessness that interests me forever. Of course that has rapidly changed the course of this art, making it portable on handmade paper when traditionally it was drawn only on massive clay tablets.

"Even though I was born in a metropolis, ...

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