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New Delhi: Gond tribal artist Gariba Tekam had never even seen a computer till two weeks back. Now, he’s working with technology to bring his images to life. As he paints a blue fox on a piece of paper, part of the storyboard for an animation film on a squirrel’s dream, Tekam says he is excited to help one of the many folk stories from his Patangarh village in Madhya Pradesh reach a wider audience. Team work: Gond artists Rajendra Kumar Shyam (extreme left) and Venkat Raman Singh (in peach-coloured shirt) with students from the National Institute of Design at an animation workshop held at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts in New Delhi. (Photo: Ramesh Pathania/ Mint)The artist’s quantum leap into computer technology comes after two days of not-so-intensive training, part of the two-week animation workshop conducted by the... [read full story]
