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BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS

Varunika Saraf quotes German poet-playwright Bertolt Brecht: “Will there be singing in the dark times? Yes, there will be singing… about the dark times.”

Speaking out against our grim present, the Hyderabad-based artist and feminist warns at the Chemould Prescott Road gallery (on till Dec. 31) highlights both outer injustice and inner pain. Fashioned out of handmade paper called , her suite of 175 recent paintings and drawings raise questions about the relentless cycle of violence.

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