2016 to 2018 · 14 works
Gone Are The Days
A tonga, a clay gullak, a twenty-paise coin. The ordinary days were the good ones, and here they still are.
“The shades that touched me, the live frames that seemed to tell a story larger than the attention they seemed to draw.”
Dr Dolly Prasad, on the collection
Fourteen canvases of ordinary things. The bullock cart and the tonga. The clay gullak and its coins. The red letterbox. The hand-painted film poster. None felt special while it was happening; it was just a Tuesday.
Often an old thing shares the canvas with whatever came after it, and both are given the same light.
Coins and clay
A clay gullak, and the coins it was made to hold: 20 paise, 5 naye paise, 4 annas.
The coins have moved on. The gullak is still here, still holding.
Roads
Before engines, there were these two. Shoulder to shoulder under one yoke, pulling the wheel that carried a village’s harvest, its weddings, its markets.
The wheel still stands. The road has moved on.
The Bullocks · Oil on canvas · 48 × 48 in · Available
See the painting →Then and now
A tonga beside an autorickshaw. A bullock cart beside a truck.
Two ways of moving through the same street, on one canvas.
![Gone Are The Days [A], oil on canvas, by Dr Dolly Prasad](/site/thumbs/carriage-and-autorickshaw.jpg)
![Gone Are The Days [B], oil on canvas, by Dr Dolly Prasad](/site/thumbs/bullock-cart-and-truck.jpg)
Letters and cinema
A red letterbox. Steel kettles. Milk cans under a film poster.
The street’s post, its tea and its cinema.
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