This Manipur Artist Brings Feminism and Home to the Canvas OZY
Sony Thokchom always felt like an outsider in Delhi. The native of Manipur, a state in India’s northeastern region, felt out of place in the bustling nation’s capital where his ethnicity was often ridiculed and people seemed unwilling to open up to him. But he did something with those experiences, transforming them in the best way he knows how: on canvas. If you look closely at Thokchom’s watercolors, you’ll see wild grass in the background, growing tall and stately and speckled with flowers. “Many times I felt invisible living in the city, just like that grass is invisible to many people w…
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