Housethome & Taj Falaknuma: A Majestic Union of Artistry & Heritage
Kahani Gifts, the bespoke gifting arm of Housethome, founded by Nalini B Bharggav, Co-Founder, Housethome, takes a step forward by collaborating with the Taj Group, showcasing its exquisite creations at the iconic Taj Khazana Store within the palatial Taj Falaknuma, Hyderabad.
Artist, Varsha Kharatmal : Her Art displays an acute realism in the women’s saris and jewelry, combined with traditional Indian miniature motifs in the backgrounds.
Varsha Kharatmal showed a talent for visual art at a young age. She was nurtured by her father, an art teacher, and grew up with painting, photography, and calligraphy.
Deaf since birth, Varsha attended a special school for hearing impaired children.
Artist, Bhushayya Kunuku : Incorporates colors that are shadowy and can complement the walls of modern interiors
Kunuku Bhushayya is a well-known artist from Hyderabad who showcases various facets of God through his incredibly colored paintings. His riveting collection of works is an amalgamation of figurative and abstract art styles. Torn apart textured surface sets the background of his paintings whereas spiritual and divine thematic palette sets the foreground.
Artist, Vivek Kumavat : “’I have observed that a bull is warm, gentle, passionate and friendly animal, until it is provoked to be ferocious; quiet similar to human attitude in the society.”
Vivek Kumavat’s art is instantly recognizable and has a spontaneous recall value for Indian art connoisseurs as all his works are created around the icon of the majestic Indian Bull.
Born in 1977, Vivek Kumavat did his graduation in Fine Arts from the prestigious Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai and is currently based out of Mumbai.
Artist, Umakant Kanade : This Artist painfully labours to bring out the texture of each rock or bird that he portrays through minute strokes.
Working primarily with ink on canvas, Umakant Kanade’s paintings usually depict elements of nature in their most bare and basic forms. The artist works hard to bring out the texture of each rock or bird that he portrays through minute strokes.
Artist, Lakhan Singh Jat : His paintings reflect the mesmerizing traditional beauty of Indian villages.
“Myself Lakhan Singh Jat, Visual artist born in 1986 and brought up in Kusany, a village near Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The approach to my paintings is based on the product of my inquisitiveness towards human nature and my childhood memories.
Artist, Dhanu Andhluri : “Sacred Narratives in Line, Detail & Monumental Luminosity”
Dhanu Andhluri’s artistic language is deeply anchored in the rich visual traditions of Kalamkari and classical Indian iconography, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. His oeuvre is dominated by large-scale, intricately detailed compositions depicting mythological narratives – ranging from Rama Rajyabhishekam to Krishna Leela and powerful singular deities such as Surya, Venkateswara, and Shiva.
Artist, Monoj Das : His forte is “art in motion”! Using forceful strokes to depict his delicate characters…
Manoj Das emerges as a compelling contemporary voice whose works traverse the delicate boundary between memory and imagination. Rooted in an intuitive understanding of form and emotion, his practice unfolds through layered compositions that reveal themselves gradually to the discerning eye.
Artist, Hampa Sircar Das : “Echoes of Memory and Myth in Form”
Hampa Sircar Das brings a distinctive narrative sensibility to contemporary Indian art, where memory, mythology, and personal history intersect with quiet intensity. Her works often unfold as layered visual stories, rooted in cultural memory yet articulated through a refined, contemporary lens.
Meghana Kishore : “Whispers of Stillness in Fluid Abstraction”
Meghana Kishore’s paintings unfold as quiet, immersive spaces that invite a slowing down of perception. Her work inhabits the realm of abstraction, where colour, light, and texture dissolve into atmospheric compositions that feel both expansive and deeply intimate. Each canvas becomes less an image and more an experience, offering a moment of pause within an otherwise restless visual world.
Yuvan Bothysathuvar : “Chromatic Rhythms and the Poetry of Pattern”
Yuvan Bothysathuvar constructs a visual universe that is at once playful and intensely immersive. His abstract collages unfold like intricate tapestries, drawing the viewer into a charged field of colour, rhythm, and movement. At first encounter, the works dazzle with their vibrancy, but linger a moment longer and a deeper, almost meditative complexity begins to surface.
Artist, Meenal Singh : “Immersive Abstractions in Colour and Form”
Meenal Singh’s practice unfolds as a deeply intuitive dialogue between material, movement, and emotion. Working predominantly in oil on canvas, she moves away from conventional tools, allowing the natural behaviour of pigment to dictate the language of her compositions. The result is a body of work that feels organic and expansive, where colour flows into vast, immersive terrains that resemble imagined landscapes and inner topographies.
Artist, Gurudas Shenoy : “Quiet Narratives in Contemporary Indian Form”
Gurudas Shenoy’s artistic language is one of quiet power, rooted in tradition yet undeniably contemporary in expression. His works distill everyday Indian life into evocative visual poetry, where form, texture, and emotion converge with effortless grace.
Working primarily with earthy palettes and layered compositions, Shenoy creates narratives that feel both intimate and timeless.
Siddharth Shingade is one of India’s most evocative contemporary artists, celebrated for his deeply introspective and poetic visual language.
Rooted in rural Maharashtra, his work draws from lived experiences, memory, and the quiet dignity of everyday life. His compositions often depict solitary figures, animals & landscapes that seem suspended between reality & dream.
The Dashavatara – The ten sacred incarnations of Lord Vishnu is one of the most profound narratives in Hinduism. Each avatar appears at a pivotal moment in cosmic history to restore dharma (righteous order) and protect the balance of the universe.
Naina Maithani’s abstract paintings are deeply atmospheric works that translate memory, landscape, and emotion into luminous fields of colour. Her practice is guided less by representation and more by sensation – capturing fleeting impressions of place, light, and movement that linger in the artist’s consciousness long after the moment has passed.
