The indigenous visual art form of Bhagalpur-Manjusha painting-will be displayed at Rajpath during the Republic Day celebration in New Delhi, deputy collector Manish Kumar said.
The 16-metre long art work is painted by Manoj Pandit and his disciple Aman Sagar. Manoj is considered an icon of the art form.
According to sources, the painting was prepared at an art workshop organised at Bhubaneshwar by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, a wing of the Union ministry of culture in collaboration with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) in December 2021. The workshop was a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ programme and intended to celebrate the heroics and struggles of the unsung freedom fighters of Indian national movement.