Art

With that one series, Priyanka Paul became an overnight star on the social media platform. Today she has over 25,000 people following her handle - artwhoring.

Using only glue, scissors, tweezers and of course, various forms and grades of paper, Oorjitha Dogiparthi’s miniatures incorporates craft methods like quilling and origami that range from simple to really complex and intricate works.

Latika Chakraborty had always loved sewing and it had been making clothes for her kids that originally brought out her amazing skills.

Unearthed by Amedeo Maiuri in 1938, an Italian scholar, Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that lays testimony to the intensity of Indo-Roman trade relations dating back to the first-century AD.

Shakila, who once spent her days sleeping on the streets of Kolkata, has today, sold her art in France, Germany, Norway and America—all because of her phenomenal talent and her 'Baba.'

While we have seen the Navarasas being performed on stage, Sastry is of the belief that dance can depict just about anything: from gender studies to data science.

A Pune-based mechanical engineer and industrialist, Shrikant Ingalhalikar has been creating detailed tableaus out of thousands of coloured paddy shoots since 2016 and aims to continue doing so.

"I have seen stand up comedians often sharing stories about their maids, but now, I will speak."

Sometimes simple, while at other times intricate and thought-provoking, what truly needs to be celebrated is the vision of these artists, that encases random objects in narrative frames and whole new perspectives!

Grown in a petri-dish on a layer of agar-agar—which is the growth medium for most bacteria—different microbes of different colours are grown and 'trimmed' to fit the rendition of the artist.