What’s more soothing than sitting with a hot cup of chai, by the window, when it rains? Amrita Sarkar shares a sketch.
Art by Swati Sengupta that captures perfectly our theme for May 2012 – Melange. It’s featured on the issue’s cover page.
And what happens the night before X’mas? A melange of toys wait to meet their new owner. Amrita Sarkar captures this through a colourful, grungy looking poster like painting.
Amrita Sarkar captures through her art the journey of a rider, the journey that ends only when one reaches the horizon where the eternal cycle of life and death comes to a halt.
And we dream that the sisters will grow up into a world we dream that women should live in…Art by Sreetama Ray.
The cover image of the March 2012 issue – Goddess Durga with her third eye symbolising the intuitive power of a woman. Done in charcoal by Sreetama Ray. Also presented here is a painting of the warrior Goddess Durga.
‘Dear Diary’, is an account of a girl who sees three different women during a day of her journey and writes and illustrates about them. Amrita Sarkar’s art work is based on the patachitra tribal style of paintings.
What goes on in the mind of a writer before the words begin to spill out? Anupama Krishnakumar tries to capture the maze of thoughts in a sketch.
Sandhya Ramachandran gives the perfect tribute to the first anniversary issue theme, ‘Celebrating Creativity and Creation.’ See creativity oozing out of sketches that Sandhya pencils around spilt chai.