Ganja–Mahua Chronicles

<p> ‘Transports the reader to another time and age and space’—John Berger </p><p>I wrap your name in mine </p><p>I’m mixing weed with wine </p><p>I’m the dot you’re the line</p> <p>I’m the name you’re the sign </p><p>This exceptional document charts the journeys of Venkat an artist from a remote ‘tribal’ village in Madhya Pradesh to the art worlds of Bhopal Delhi and to foreign lands in the footsteps of his uncle the legendary Jangarh Singh Shyam. It is a wonderfully devised jugalbandi between the artist and his soulmate Anand. It is a story of survival both physical and artistic in the underbelly of cities and in the bylanes of the art market. It sparkles with an unusual incandescence.—Gulammohammed Sheikh</p>