Inside a roadside tea stall, a white-bearded Sikh in a white turban stands behind the counter holding a kettle and a glass, and a bald waiter in a vest lifts a tray. At an orange table below, a man in a yellow shawl drinks from a glass while two young men lean towards each other across the table.

A Stranger at Gyaniji’s Dhaba

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  • Acrylic Ink on Canvas
  • 32 × 23 in (height × width)
  • Edition of 75, signed and numbered

The story behind

I always felt that the person or the individual should not be neglected, and I was drawn to the situations and the influences of the conditions they lived in. My idea of recreating the tales of the Mahabharata and the Biblical stories all with humans I saw in the Nizamuddin dhabas were all tales of the human condition.

Krishen Khanna, Centurion of Colour (2025)
Detail: The man in the yellow shawl lifting his glass: the fluted white glass in thick strokes, the dark face in dragged paint, canvas weave showing through the yellows.
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