The event featured artists inking a wide range of designs, including Hindu deities such as Ganesh, Hanuman, Lord Buddha, the Living Goddess Kumari, as well as contemporary and abstract concepts that fuse tradition with modern aesthetics

That’s what our city’s artists are asking on hearing about the R167-crore auction of Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna. Mega art deals may bring global attention to the desi art market, but they’ve made very little difference for the starving artist on ground