Chitranjali
Raja Ravi Varma Chitrakar Samman Samaroh
A national platform of respect for Indian painting, and for the painters who keep it alive.
The initiative
Built in remembrance of one of Indian painting’s most influential figures
Among the Sansthan’s principal cultural undertakings is “Chitranjali” “Raja Ravi Varma Chitrakar Samman Samaroh”, an initiative built in remembrance of one of Indian painting’s most influential figures.
Raja Ravi Varma gave India’s mythology, deities and everyday life a visual language that reached far beyond the palace and the exhibition hall into the homes of ordinary people and in doing so, reshaped how the country came to picture itself. It is this same spirit of accessibility, dignity and devotion to craft that Megh Mandal Sansthan seeks to carry forward.
Chitranjali is not merely a felicitation ceremony. It is a national platform of respect for Indian painting, for the discipline and devotion (कला-साधना) that artistic life demands, and for the cultural inheritance that painters across generations have kept alive. Through Chitranjali, the Sansthan honours talented painters and artists from different regions of the country, giving India’s diverse visual traditions a shared, national stage.
What Chitranjali stands for
Respect for Indian painting
A national platform that names the tradition and treats it with the seriousness it deserves.
कला-साधना
The discipline and devotion that artistic life demands, honoured as a practice and not only as a product.
A shared national stage
Talented painters and artists from different regions of the country, given the same platform and the same recognition.
From the ceremony
Photographs of the felicitations, the guests of honour and the audience are collected in the gallery.