A print advertisement from 1939

A little away from streets lined with stalls offering masala milk, kulhad chai and crisp kand (yam) chaat in Nathdwara, a temple town in Rajasthan, is a bylane known as Chitrakaron Ki Gully (artists' street). Here, you'll find a community of artists, many of them fifth-generation craftsmen, engrossed in painting scenes from Lord Krishna's everyday life — playing raasleela with gopis or a flute in lush, green fields amidst cows — on cloth.