NEW DELHI : The moment Remant Mishra saw the news of a pregnant elephant’s death after eating a cracker-filled fruit last week on TV, he knew what his next Madhubani painting would be on.
He spent the next 15 hours sketching a jumbo and its calf, both crying, on a 14x22 inch canvas in Bihar’s traditional art form. “I left it without colours.
I couldn’t get over how cruel we have become," says Joshi, a third-generation Madhubani artist and a farmer who lives with his family and six cows in Bihar’s Jitwarpur village.