‘Ekayan – Ek Sutra’ featured National Award-winning artists Manisha Jha (Madhubani), Prakash Joshi (Phad) and J.Niranjan (Kalamkari/Chintz). The founder of Art Tree, Pragati Agarwal, while reiterating her commitment to promoting traditional and folk arts, said, “Art Tree has always endeavoured to boost, support and encourage the sustenance of some of the enriching traditional forms that will eventually get revived and lead to their resurgence.”As part of the exhibition, a panel discussion on ‘The Legacy and Revival of Chintz’ with artist J Niranjan and Indian handicrafts curator Jaya Jaitly and Sanjay Garg of Raw Mango was also held. During the discussion, Jaitly pointed out that the original nomenclature ‘Radhapani’ instead of the British named ‘Chintz’ should be used. She explained, “The British could not pronounce the original word ‘Chheent’ and so they changed it to ‘Chintz’ which is rather derogatory. I am so glad that an artist of Niranjan’s calibre is the one who has taken so much pain to revitalize and restore such a rare art form.”
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