Achyut Palav
Achyut Palav
Padmashree Awardee Achyut Palav is a Master Calligrapher from India who has made promoting Indian calligraphy and scripts his mission in life. He considers the numerous phonetically evolved scripts of India to be superior examples of design, with each letterform a work of art with high potential of application across media and subjects. He has done extensive work in many Indian scripts, especially Devanagari, and explores various styles and concepts. His works are also displayed on Rashtrapati Bhavan. Apart from Padma Shri award in 2025 Achyut has received numerous award including 2024 ‘Best of Best’ Award at the 21st Cheongju Jikji and Hunminjeongeum World Calligraphy Contest, South Korea. Other recognitions include a National Award for his book Aksharanubhav and the Lifetime Achievement Award by IDC IIT Bombay and Banaras Hindu University. Achyut has given numerous presentations, Calligraphy Fusion performances, published over eight books, and given live demonstrations in India and abroad. Workshops, lectures, and demonstrations have taken him to places like USA, France, UK, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, China, Dubai, South Korea, etc. His paintings are in the collections of Stiftung Archives, Klingspor Museum (Germany), Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Armenian Consulate, Société Générale (Paris, France), and the European Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy (Russia).
Prakash Bal Joshi
Prakash Bal Joshi
Prakash Bal Joshi is a multifaceted personality with four decades in journalism, creative writing and international recognition as an artist. His work is spontaneous and brush strokes are full of energy brining the picture alive.
Milind Mulick
Milind Mulick
Milind Mulick is an internationally acclaimed Indian watercolor artist based in Pune, Maharashtra. Trained under his father, renowned painter Pratap Mulick, he developed a distinctive style that captures the beauty of landscapes with remarkable sensitivity and realism. After beginning his career as an architectural illustrator and commercial designer, he became a full-time painter. He has held over 40 solo exhibitions in India and abroad, and his works are featured in prestigious public and private collections worldwide. A respected author and educator, he has published several bestselling books on watercolor painting and regularly conducts workshops, demonstrations, and online classes, inspiring artists across the world.
Jayanta Guha
Jayanta Guha
Chandramohan Kulkarni
Chandramohan Kulkarni
Awards
2022 Satyajit Ray Award, Sahir Ludhianvi and Balraj Sahni Foundation
2026 Godawari Gaurav Puraskar, Kusumagraj Foundation, Nashik
These are distinguished awards. Many other prestigious awards are not listed here for brevity, but are no less significant.
His major contribution is to Marathi literature. He has worked on thousands of book covers and illustrations, including many children’s illustrations. He works in almost all types of mediums.
He has written many articles on understanding art and has authored at least five books on art.
His work does not follow a typical format or style. He changes his style from time to time, and rather than focusing on surface-level painting, he aims to convey an inner statement through his work.
He is drawn to depicting the everyday lives of ordinary people — small vendors, street vendors, construction workers, painters, shopkeepers, and others engaged in small businesses. His work reflects contemporary thought regarding human relationships, drawn from Marathi and Hindi literature. This results in varied styles across his paintings.
Besides figurative work, he also expresses through abstract, absurd, and purely compositional forms. This experimentation keeps his practice evolving beyond a single visual language.
More than 20 solo exhibitions of paintings and sculptures
Participated in National and International shows
Works in Government of India collections and private collections in India and abroad
Teaching faculty at Riyaaz – Illustrator’s Academy, Bhopal. Joint initiative of Ektara, Bhopal and Tata Trusts.
Ajit Deswandikar
Ajit Deswandikar
Saurabh Chatterjee
Saurabh Chatterjee
His dream is to see India and to make every camera-owner a great photographer. He has been traveling and documenting the landscape, people, culture and festivals of our country for about 30 years.
After working in the IT industry for a decade, he chose to teach and travel full-time.
Through his Photowalks, Photo-Tours and Photography Classes he has shared his knowledge with more than 6000 photography enthusiasts across the world since 2011. He has taught photography in many schools and colleges.
More than 500 of his works have been published in several national and international publications including the National Geographic Traveller India, Lonely Planet, Timeout Explorer (UK), The Times (London, UK), The Economist, UK, etc.
His pictures have been exhibited around the world, the latest one “Hyderabad in Bordeaux” in Bordeaux, France.
He has won several national and international Photography awards for his works.
Saurabh also works with several NGOs teaching photography to kids. He has done some documentary projects for various organizations including Sight and Life Foundation, Switzerland, Dr. Reddy’s Foundation, National Innovation Foundation (IIM-A) and UNICEF, etc.
