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INTRODUCTION

I do realistic and emotive portrayals of everyday India in her work. My muse is the common steel vessel -- perhaps the most ubiquitous item of pre-liberalization India – a persistent childhood memory which has gone on to dominate my canvases. Aluminum kettles that serve up roadside milky chai (tea), steel utensils hanging from the milkman’s bicycle – these are images quintessential to an India that is also fast being eaten up by the new cosmopolitan world. In fact,I see myself not just as an artist, but also as a documentation of Indian life. When I compare my growing-up years with the present-day Surat, I almost can’t recognize it. These vessels were so common to my childhood, now you barely see them - the city has changed so much. I like to preserve something of a specific moment. It’s a very real portrayal, but increasingly invokes a strong nostalgia.