"…she crafted a collection of scarves around the work of her late father, renowned Indian multidisciplinary artist Babuji Rajendra Shilpi, whose work was a celebration of Indian heritage and ancient arts."
— Ruman Baig, ELLE India
ELLE India writer Ruman Baig spent time with Darshana to understand the line that runs from a Bombay studio in the 1940s to a Belgravia atelier in 2022. The feature pays serious attention to the gouache, oil and pen-and-ink work of Babuji Rajendra Shilpi — a multidisciplinary artist whose voice the new collection brings into conversation with contemporary craft.
Baig writes with a careful warmth on the question of inheritance: not just material inheritance, but the artistic kind — what is owed, what is renewed, what passes between hands. The piece runs both online and in ELLE India's December 2022 print edition.
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