Rukmini Varma

Rukmini Varma is a leading Indian artist who paints in the classical tradition. Born in 1940 as Princess Bharani Thirunal Rukmini Bayi Thampuran of Travancore State, Rukmini is a great-great granddaughter of the master painter Raja Ravi Varma and custodian of his artistic legacy. She is also the Chairperson of The Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation based in Bengaluru. Having gone through a cataclysmic change in her life from being a princess to renouncing it all and living life as a commoner, Rukmini came out of a long sabbatical and exhibited her latest works in the series titled “OpulRead More...


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The sharp eye of Neelakantan Bhattathiripad noted the young Ravi Varma tracing lines on the sand. His son was a strange child in his opinion but he refrained from voicing it.

“What would this son of his become, the scion of this strange race,” he wondered?

“Always, always drawing and sketching things — was there a future in this?”

His wife, Umamba Bayi indulged him too much.

All this fanciful sketching, it was a dreamer’s

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