Let there be Peace

In Babloo’s World,a small boy is playing a drum while the twilight falls on his face and a small brook bubbles in the background. “Babloo is my chowkidaar’s son. He is usually calm and composed,but there was this playfulness and carelessness when I saw him playing his drum,” says the 49-year-old self-taught artist,who has a degree in law.

In another painting,Return of the Hangul,a group of young boys and girls sit on the branches of a fallen pine tree,holding colourful kites that evoke a sense of freedom,while clouds loom overhead. Watching them is a hangul. “Hangul is a Kashmiri stag,a subspecies of the Red Deer,and is an endangered species. It represents the Kashmiri Pandit community,who were forced to leave the Valley. Their lives had been endangered in their own homeland,” says Gupta about the name of the work and the exhibition. His works have a photographic quality layered with meaning,indicating his passion for Kashmir.

The exhibition is on at Square One Mall,Saket,till April 27.

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