Shweta Rao Garg is an artist, writer, and academic based in Ahmedabad.
A former Fulbright scholar and recipient of Sahitya Akademi translation prize, Shweta perceives her art as a culmination of her creative and critical faculties. The storyteller in her uses canvas as a medium to express herself. As a poet, she explores the life and its inexplicable quandaries.
The questions of identity, space, history, and ordinary lives inform her works. Her standpoint as a feminist, and as a gender studies scholar, shapes her subject matter and forms. Her first solo exhibition of paintings, “The Bard in Acrylic” was inspired by the works of William Shakespeare and was held in December 2018. Her second solo exhibition of paintings called, “Of Goddesses and Women” which was about the everyday lives of urban Indian women was held in December 2019.
Her writings, like her paintings, are replete with jouissance and irony. She aims to develop a nuanced appreciation of life through her creative practices. She is awaiting the publication of her graphic novel and her collection of poetry.
She is a professor of English at DA-IICT. She has a Masters degree in English from JNU, New Delhi and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee.
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Why Read Poetry ?
A few years back, when language first came to you, it came through lullabies that your mother sang for you. If you stay still enough, you will find th
12 August, 2020
