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It seems their roots are in the rock shelters of ancestors found in Bhimbhedka and Raisen in Madhya Pradesh.

Their presence in the hut is auspicious and is said to promote fertility, avert disease, propitiate the dead, etc.

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They show rituals at birth, marriage, a life full of dance and music, livelihood, connectivity with death and life after death.

Artists express a kind of fulfillment they experience that is in harmony with nature and their gods and goddesses.

The material used for painting is simple, themes contained therein, philosophy of existence and even life beyond death, all are brought forth in a most elementary format.

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The paintings are expressive with profound truths and project all that one needs to know how to live a happy life.

Austere brown wall surface of huts displaying tribal designs with typical rock art motifs make Warli art different from other tribal paintings of India.

Money elsewhere is pulling artists away from their traditional occupation.

Something has to be done by society to create conditions for them, to not get weaned away by lure of commercial avenues.

This book is a small effort to save this art from falling off from the pathway of time continuum.

Tribal, rural and folk arts are her interests and she has spent over fifty years on these.

Exhibitions of her paintings on rural and folk art have been held in New Delhi, Melbourne, Gaborone, Universities of Standford, Berkeley, Louisiana, Buffalo and Pittsburgh in the last ten years or so.

She heads an NGO called Udayan created for encouraging the rural artists who work deep inside a village.

With her background she is trying to preserve this dying art and encourage artists by giving them exposure in the global world.

This art originated in early tribal and agriculture communities containing in itself and thoughts and beliefs of early man.

After a long continuous journey through generations it is still popular in villages and is now attracting urban art lovers.

Over time, this art came into contact with numerous cultures and has assimilated outside influence, without losing its original character.

As of today, different regions have their own style of painting.

Yet there is something common with other styles and some regional peculiarities.

All such traditional art has contributed to building the culture of this country.

Their art is very close to rock art of central India but with a powerful narrative power.

They use brown mud plastered walls of their huts as their canvas, and paint tribal designs in while or brilliant sindura red.

Agricultural implements used by them, and areas allotted for rice pounding, worship, marriage etc.

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