his exhibition at Bihar Museum offers a retrospective view of the work of printmaker Rakhi Kumari, spanning more than three decades of practice. Moving from her early woodcuts and lithographs of the 1990s to recent works in acrylic, ink and mixed media on canvas, it traces her growth as an artist and her sustained spirit of experiment. Works such as Self Portrait, Pratibimb (Reflection), My Home, Freedom and Back to Nature explore the bond between people and nature, the changing textures of social life and questions of women's identity and freedom. Trained at the College of Arts and Crafts, Patna, and at Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, and with doctoral research on the mural traditions of Mithila, Rakhi Kumari draws folk sensibility and contemporary printmaking into conversation. The exhibition invites visitors to follow that dialogue across her career.

The exhibition brings together works from across Khanna's long and distinguished career. It traces his lasting interest in people on the move. These are the refugees, migrants, labourers and others whose ordinary lives often go unseen, yet who remain deeply vulnerable. Khanna is the last surviving member of the Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) of Bombay. From the iconic Bandwallahs and Truckwallahs series to his paintings on biblical and mythological themes, his work reveals a deep empathy for the human condition. He records both the hardship of survival and the dignity within it. His art spans the upheavals of the mid-twentieth century and the changing society of the present day. Seen together, the works form a visual continuum of displacement, labour, resilience and endurance. Khanna makes the ordinary and the overlooked the subject of his art. He takes people from the margins and brings them to the centre of his work.