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Nandakumar Marar’s artwork on migrants leaving Mumbai

Watching the world go into pause mode in the lockdown months, sports writer Nandakumar Marar's inclination towards art as a schoolboy remerged.

Sports writer Nandakumar Marar

The Goregaon resident used green vegetables and pulses to shape things quite literally. He arranged them on a horizontal surface to put a human spin to his hobby. One of ‘Nandudesigns' depicted a migrant family leaving the city at the height of Covid-19.

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Since a suitable vegetable was not available to show luggage on their heads, biscuit packets came in handy. This creation was blown up into a framed image by an NGO, Indian Development Foundation (IDF), set up by Dr ARK Pillai, to present as memento to a biscuit company in return for biscuits to be distributed among migrants.