PM Modi Gifts Mathura's Famous Sanjhi Art To Joe Biden At Tokyo Meet
NDTV
US-India Meet: Sanjhi is the art of hand-cutting designs on paper. Traditionally motifs from Lord Krishna's stories are created in stencils. Sanjhi painting still survives in the Radharamana temple of Vrindavan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted a Sanjhi Art panel to US President Joe Biden during his meeting with him in Tokyo.
Sanjhi Painting is a tradition of art that originated out of the cult of Krishna and flourished in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is in Vraja, or Vrindavan, the homeland of Lord Sri Krishna, that this art of Sanjhi painting reached its pinnacle.
Sanjhi is the art of hand-cutting designs on paper. Traditionally motifs from Lord Krishna's stories are created in stencils. These stencils are cut freehand using a scissor or a blade. The delicate Sanjhi is often held together by thin sheets of paper.
This intricate Sanjhi Panel is famously based on the theme of Thakurani Ghat from Mathura by a National Awardee.
