01 — Dharamkot
I climbed 120 steps to a café above the clouds and the coffee was worth every one. But it wasn't the coffee. It was the mist sitting in the valley below like it had nowhere else to be.
Painted from memory, not from maps.
Every city holds a version of itself that only opens to the people who stayed long enough. Not the monuments. Not the postcards. The lane after rain. The stall after midnight. The door that was already open when you arrived. Known Roads is a collection of those moments — painted from memory, not from maps.
02 — Srinagar
The door was already open. The chinar was already turning. I stood there longer than I needed to, and that was the whole point.
03 — Goa
Everyone goes to Goa for the sun. I stayed for the rain. Fontainhas after a monsoon downpour — the Azulejo tiles catching lantern light, nobody on the lane.
04 — Mumbai
After office. Before dinner. I used to walk this arc with friends, saying nothing important, and it was the best part of the day.
05 — Gangtok
My first trip with a close friend. A trek through pines so tall they made their own cathedral. And then through a gap in the canopy — Kanchenjunga, enormous and quiet.
06 — Indore
One stall. One bulb. Steam rising into the dark. This is the Indore I grew up eating at. This is what home tastes like, painted.
07 — Udaipur
You have stood in a place like this before. Not this exact corridor — but a moment like it. Where you stopped walking and just looked, and something in you went quiet.
Seven originals from the Known Roads — India collection. Each piece sold with its story.
