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This artwork was the winner of Pirene’s Fountain’ cover competition for its Nov 2016 SILK & SPICE issue, Pirene’s Fountain is published by Glass Lyre Press.
“Glass Lyre is an independent literary press interested in publishing poetry collections, chapbooks, select short & flash fiction, and the occasional anthology. The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing. This special "Silk and Spice" anthology issue features fourty-four poets from around the world, as well as interviews with Joseph Fasano, Vandana Khanna, and Kalpna Singh-Chitnis.” Source: https://glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/pirenes-fountain/products/silk-spice-pirenes-fountain-2016 |
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What do the politics and our choice of food say about us, about our values, cultural practices, our consciousness and lived aesthetics, as also a myriad of subtleties, including refinements. This piece is a parody of a battle seen in a miniature painting — a skirmish between a vegetarian and a meat eater (a non-vegetarian). What if the character depictions were reversed? How would we then see them? |
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So, you’re birthing a book! A piece by Gouri Dange. The idea being the ferocity with which books are birthed or produced in South Asia. Any and everyone wishes to have their book see print. Towards that end this illustration attempts to reflect the pandemonium of the process seen through a frenetic machine going full steam. Source: HIMAL Southasian, Nepal - May 11 2011 |
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Feminism and the sex worker.
For the article “Sex and the pity” by Meena Saraswathi Seshu. The stigmatisation of sex workers stems from misconceptions and squeamishness about sex.
Source: From a suite of drawings for HIMAL SouthAsian, Kathmandu, Nepal. Sex and Work issue (Aug 2010 issue). |