All Purpose Room, Acrylic on Canvas, 2012, 102x127 cms

The city in the process of catching up with growth has been expanding and redeveloping and Chawls are being replaced with new urban structures. The large families that once stayed in a single room are now benefited with bigger apartment spaces. Once living cozy in a community has been replaced with living in cozy apartments. To gain something, one has to loose something. Many Chawl dwellers are waiting “hopefully” to be next in the line, while gradually the Chawl culture is vanishing.
The painting captures morning scenario of yet another new day of hope irrespective of the monotonous and mundane activities of getting ready to go to work places, schools, cooking and cleansing. The bright colors represents a friendly atmosphere -while catching up with time, irrespective of the bottleneck of sharing common bathrooms and latrines.
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