At Bharat Bhavan - Bhopal's famous, Charles Correa-designed, red sandstone-clad multidisciplinary arts centre - the first person I meet is Yashwant Tekam, a young waiter at the canteen where I've stopped to drink a delicious mattha before taking on the exhibitions. Dressed in jeans and sneakers, and deploying his limited English with wonderful confidence, Yashwant tells me he's actually an artist, with roots in the village of Karopani in the state's Dindori zila. Waiting tables is his day job at night he paints folk tales and stories about forest life with acrylic and watercolours on canvas and paper.
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