Feature in India Today, January, 2016
Pop-art comic figures, surreal multi-limbed bodies, living ghosts; Chitra Ganesh's huge murals are the cave paintings of the modern world, a marker of the schizophrenic lives we lead in a world beset with self-interest, isolation and terror. Yet they are flecked with beauty, fantasy, strength, even hope. Ganesh, 40, whose roots are in India, uses her paintbrush almost as a blow-torch. searing the consciousness with her take on politics, feminism and human rights.