Art Camp Yatra: A Journey of the Migrant Child

On the evening of 16 July, a blackboard at the Lotus Branch of I Light Global filled up with chalk. Not with a lesson plan. With an invitation.
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ART CAMP YATRA. A journey of migrant child. Underneath, a list of names: Dalip Chandola, Pulkesh Mandal, Manohar, Varun. Guests, invited into a room usually held by the children themselves. Five o’clock to seven, one evening set aside to look at what a year of drawing, sketching, and quiet attention had produced.

By the time the balloons went up around that same blackboard, the room had filled with the young artists themselves, seven of them standing together for a photograph, the chalk illustration of a child looking out toward distant hills still visible behind them. Some of them wore matching t-shirts. All of them were smiling the particular smile of people about to show their work to someone who asked to see it.

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