Discipline: <span>Visual arts</span>
Discipline: <span>Visual arts</span>
12 October 2026
Sushil Yadav
The Studio · Sculpture. He builds people out of terracotta, coil by coil, to ask what stays with us when a home is gone.
12 October 2026
Aniket Dharmendra Varma
The Studio · Painting. He paints the broken idols that wash up after visarjan and asks a hard question: do we believe or do we only follow?
12 October 2026
Nitya Bhaumik Joshi
First Year Out · Drawing. She draws the rooms of her home in charcoal. No one is in them, yet every room shows that someone lives there.
12 October 2026
Saroj Kumar Badatya
The Long View. A visual artist from Odisha and one of the four who chose Edition One. He makes woodcuts, drawings and videos about grass.
12 October 2026
What the house leaves behind
Mud becomes a house. The house becomes mud. What stays, when the walls are gone, is the people.
12 October 2026
The gods that fall
Every year after Ganesh visarjan, broken idols wash back onto the shore. Aniket Dharmendra Varma paints what is left. And he asks a hard question. Do we believe or do we only follow?
12 October 2026
The room remembers
No one is in the room. Still, the chair remembers who sat there last.
12 October 2026
Every blade, by hand
Grass is the first thing to grow on bare ground and the last thing anyone looks at. Saroj Kumar Badatya has spent years looking at it closely.