Bull gives you wings Painting

C 4 Delhi C 4 Delhi…… Delhi is the capital of India, Ab Delhi door nahi, Is jungle se mujhe bachao (the jungle of wires and poles), Delhi kal tak, Ramleela – sorry for interruption(politics and faith), Delhi boy—Shahrukh Khan, Gandhi gayarah murthi – roojana char khel, Keep safe distance – Horn ok please(auto rickshaw 786), Jis desh mein ganga behti hai(Delhi jal nigam), Delhi hamake jum gayil(migrants), Ghar kab aaoge (cycle-rickshaw), Phul kile gulshan gulshan, Delhi - 6 (old Delhi) Tibet to new Delhi, Hanuman a real super hero(karolbaug), Lal quilla, Qutub minar, Jama masjid, India gate – city of joy……… New Delhi, the capital and the third largest city of India is a fusion of the ancient and the modern. Standing along the West End of Genetic Plain, the capital city, Delhi, unwinds a picture rich with culture, architecture and human diversity, deep in history, monuments, museums, galleries, gardens and exotic shows. Comprising of two contrasting yet harmonious parts, the Old Delhi and New Delhi, the city is a travel hub of Northern India. Narrating the city's Mughal past, Old Delhi, takes you through the labyrinthine streets passing through formidable mosques, monuments and forts. You will also discover lively and colorful bazaars that boast to cater all sorts of good and items at mind-blowing prices amidst a barely controlled chaotic ambience. The imperial city of New Delhi displays the finely curved architecture of British Raj. The cultural life of New Delhi is both more intellectual and more international. The politics and the history are readily apparent in the daily life of the city, influencing its contemporary art. New Delhi is also the melting-pot metropolis, as communities from each part of India have created their own specialized sub-divisions within it. The exploration of spatiality and temporality in New Delhi, from the vantage-point of a newcomer and a suburban Delhi-ites, is a never-ending novel. As dream-seekers turn into day job-holders, more space is divided, expanded and commuted. I explore and revisit the formulations that are basic to the perception of space and time in Delhi. I choose different vehicles for the formulations, literally. The present suite is my paintings deal with the centrality of the public transport vehicles to the everyday aesthetics of the city life. Per se, there are so many modes of Public Transport available in New Delhi. The Local trains, Metro train, the largest public undertaking in the world, and buses that belong to DTC Bus, private Buses (popularly known as Blue line services) arguably the most undisciplined bus-operator in India. All other modes of hirable transport are privately owned, though the public authorities are supposed to control their operations. Taxis, Auto-rickshaws & Cycle rickshaw reign supreme when the trains (metro train) and buses are sparsely available: typically in after-hours, and anytime in the newly developing areas of the city. This has been the situation for last four decades, and although every mode of transport has expanded with the city’s growth, Delhi-ites haven’t entirely skipped the long wait for a public vehicle. To add to their woos, any such vehicles are crowded/already engaged. Though a major overhaul, maybe a makeover of Delhi’s transport system is on the cards for a decade now; the existing transport experience is unchanged, thanks to bureaucracy and shortage of funds. Now Delhi has changed owing to its continuous migration of people from far off places like Tibet, Bangladesh and of course from the very diverse locales of different parts of our own country. Language has seen a major shift giving its current flavour which is inspired by the culture of the migrants. Similarly, Ramleela has revamped itself from being traditional to political. Like every Indian metropolis, water shortage and traffic jams have become the order of day, thanks to the newly built malls and skyscrapers everywhere. There is a perceived, self-engaged, sentimental side to the experience of navigating through Delhi in a public transport vehicle. ‘Decorated’ taxis, auto rickshaws and Cycle rickshaws make their kitsch tore-interpret glam and glitz that the city is proud of. New Delhi has expanded and now encompasses residential and commercial development. The aesthetics has grown with the spatiality and temporality, as perceived by the people. My paintings, as such, populate so many intimate perceptions that it is hard to stamp them as cityscapes. This is not meant to be a portrait of New Delhi but rather one of the many possible indexes through which to interpret the city, its inhabitants and how it comes to articulate the nation as a whole. RAJ MORE - 2010

Painting:Acrylic on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:2 W x 66.9 H x 57.1 D in

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