Drawing the Disease
Jun 19, 2021
2 minutes
—Bhavya Dore
Quarantined ships, a pesky-looking flea, homes being disinfected, a hospital under attack—in artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s ‘Drawing the Bombay Plague’, the city’s 1896 pandemic comes alive in all its dramatic imagery. Whether containment measures, mass exoduses, or misinformation, many of the themes in his 10-feet-wide drawing resonate today. “I wanted it to be a cautionary tale,” says
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