From a security guard to a famous Gond artist, Bhajju Shyam has come a long way from making just Rs 600. Today, Bhajju Shyam may be a renowned Gond artist and writer with his works selling across ...

People bought A4 sheets of Gond art for less than a hundred rupees. The book also mourns the passing of a world in which man lived with nature, nurturing mutual respect.

In a world obsessed with originality, tribal art reminds us that innovation can be quiet. It lives in repetition, in symbols ...

The story of Pardhan Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam’s life told through fantastic art and writing that approximates the truth of poetry leads the reader to a fresh understanding of ever ...

A major platform for Gond art was your and Subhash’s participation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2018. You showed a work titled Dus Motin Kanya aur Jal Devata based on a folktale. How did you ...

Much of the art in the book is in black and white, executed with short, sharp strokes of the German-made Rotring pen which had been made an integral part of Gond art by Jangarh.

The book is a collaboration of writer and publisher S Anand and Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam while they attended Sangam House International Writers’ Residency in 2013.

He picked up the art form from his uncles. And given the rich history of mythology intrinsic to the tradition of Gond art, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam is even planning a book of folk tales that ...

Jangah Singh Shyam: A Conjuror’s Archive, by eminent scholar of Indian art and visual culture Jyotindra Jain, tells the story of an incredibly talented and innovative artist, Jangarh Singh Shyam ...

The art began as wall decorations for the Gond people’s mud dwellings. The late Jangarh Singh Shyam is regarded as a pioneer of Gond art, having brought the art style to international prominence.

About 20 years ago, when he finished a 22x30-inch work, Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, 45, found it hard to convince someone to pay him Rs 250 for it. While Gond art stalls are a fixture at ...