Moon hurts I & II -sketches: 2010

Pencil on paper

I was thinking of women, especially the women I have known in my life , and the traumas they went through. From the painful puberty, the sudden separation from home after marriage, the bloody child birth, the hard middle age, the lonely withering to death.

Babel

acrylic on paper : 2009
Story of babel is highly relevant in our times , especially in India.

1947

acrylic on paper : 2009

Partition of India, which led to one of the largest human migration in history ( approximately 15 million people ) with Muslims from India moving into Pakistan and Hindus from Pakistan moving into India. This migration split, uprooted families and villages and made millions homeless. Millions more were dead due to starvation and by large scale communal violence that erupted amidst it.
This work is inspired by the photographs of partition taken by Margaret Bourke-White which appeared in Life magazine

frog II

acrylic on paper : 2009

frog I

frog: acrlylic on paper

Head...1996

With eyes closed- self portrait .... 2001

acrylic on canvas

The walk

Acrylic on paper

untitled

untitled

untitled

Birth

old works

man and woman...from 1995..

woman: acrylic on paper, 1995

man: acrylic on paper, 1995

These are some of my earliest works. I dont know who have them right now. These were the paintings that made me believe, that I can paint and that I can put into paper the images that inhibit the dark alleys of the mind.

face

Faces: 3 inches X 3 1/2 inches, acrylic on paper. no:e27dec08

face

Faces: 3 inches X 3 1/2 inches, acrylic on paper. no:d27dec08

faces

Faces: 3 inches X 3 3/4 inches, acrylic on paper. no:c27dec08

faces

Faces: 3 inches X 3 3/4 inches, acrylic on paper. no:b27dec08

faces

Faces: 3 inches X 4 inches. acrylic on paper. no:a27dec08

This series were done while sadly watching the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack and I dedicate them to the victims of this horrible act.