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Sawarkar is the first Indian gallery artist to foreground the Dalit experience of caste as an aesthetic mode. In a broad interview, he talks about his practice.....

In December 2008, I met with the artist Savi Savarkar in his New Delhi studio. There were canvases on every wall space, canvases on easels, canvases rolled up, cans of paint in the corners, tables layered with drawings, albums on the desk filled with photographs and prints. ....

This essay is an attempt to trace the casteist undercurrents of Modernism in Indian art through the critiques proposed by the works of one of the most prominent Dalit artists of contemporary India: Savi Sawarkar....

It was a learning experience for me,too,working with the students gave me more than I gave them,” says Sawarkar a neo-Buddhist whose faith has armed him with an iconography that talks of 500 years of oppression....

I am New Delhi based artist and educator. My art practice has focused significantly on the brutality and injustice of caste- and gender-based violence and subordination for the last three decades. My imagery is based on my personal experiences of the ferocious casteism, racialism and exploitation of women.....