Sea of Stories

I Seen the Promised Land narrates the life of Martin Luther King. African-American writer and griot, bard and blues singer Arthur Flowers does the telling, while Patua artist Manu Chitrakar adapts King’s life to the colour and vivid grammar of his art. This extraordinary telling is replete with...[more] (posted on 2010-08-10)

Sita's Ramayana accomplishes a rare thing: it brings a fresh perspective to a timeless epic. Told from the heroine Sita's point of view, this version draws on a little known, though long, tradition of female retellings of the well known saga. Two women from vastly different contexts – Patua scroll...[more] (posted on 2009-03-27)