Bustling Wall Art

Bustling — 7 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground. Beyond the epics, the scrolls recorded markets, trades and daily life — the kind of crowded ground-level scene a balladeer could narrate person by person. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community in flat colour on a red ground. The form traditionally carried epics and caste legends; contemporary Cheriyal painters have extended the same grammar to everyday Telangana life. Pithora is the ritual wall-painting tradition of the Rathwa, Bhil and Bhilala Adivasi communities of Chhota Udepur in eastern Gujarat and the adjoining belt of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The weekly haat is where the village trades, meets and gossips, and the tractor and bus are the everyday transport of the same region today; contemporary Pithora artists fold such modern scenes into the wall's flat folk line.

Updated 22 Jun 2026