Venkat Raman Singh Shyam is a renowned artist. Nephew of the legendary Jangarh Singh Shyam, he works with many media and has exhibited widely across the world. S. Anand is a poet and translator, and the publisher of Navayana. He is the coauthor of Bhimayana and has annotated B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste.
<p style="padding: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Transports the reader to another time and age and space—John Berger</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I wrap your name in mine</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’m mixing weed with wine</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’m the dot, you’re the line</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’m the name, you’re the sign</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This exceptional document charts the journeys of Venkat, an artist from a remote ‘tribal’ village in Madhya Pradesh, to the art worlds of Bhopal, Delhi and to foreign lands in the footsteps of his uncle, the legendary Jangarh Singh Shyam. It is a wonderfully devised jugalbandi between the artist and his soulmate, Anand. It is a story of survival, both physical and artistic, in the underbelly of cities and in the bylanes of the art market. It sparkles with an unusual incandescence.—Gulammohammed Sheikh.</p>
