Kids Room Wall Art

Kids Room — 26 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities in natural earth pigments — manganese black, hematite red, kaolin white and ochre yellow — on a daubed mud wall to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. The forest creatures the communities live among — elephants, deer, peacocks — recur on these walls as a celebration of the wild country around the village. Hanuman's leap belongs to the Ramayana's Sundara Kanda — his bound across the ocean to Lanka — and to the later episode in which he carries an entire mountain of healing herbs when he cannot identify the Sanjivani. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and unrolled by travelling balladeers who sang the epics to village audiences through the night. Makar Sankranti — kept in Telangana over several days in mid-January — is celebrated across western and southern India with rooftop kite-flying, sweets and bonfires marking the sun's turn toward the north. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and once unrolled by travelling balladeers to narrate epics and caste legends, with stacked registers used to narrate a sequence of scenes.

Updated 22 Jun 2026