Mandana design likely to extinct due to rapid urbanisation
PTI | 02:01 PM,Jan 29,2012Bundi (Raj), Jan 29 (PTI) Mandana, a popular folk art meant to grace the floors and walls of rural Indian homes, is on the verge of extinction due to rapidly growing urbanisation in the state of Rajasthan, according to experts. "Urbanisation is killing this rich art by rustic women as the mud houses are disappearing and concrete houses are coming up," Ashish Shringi, a lecturer in a government institution in Bundi, who has earned a PhD on 'Mandana Art in Rajasthan' from Maharishi Dayanand University (MDS), Ajmer said. "There is deep scientific and Tantric approach in the circular, squire and hexameter diagrams of Mandana. Mandana art is a logic with scientific approach and we need to preserve it," he said. Mandana designs, that concealingly embodies atomic constitution and Tantric forms, are mainly drawn on the mud and crimson red soil smeared platforms and premises of home with white lime paste (Khadiya) by the rustic women of Rajasthan in rural area on the auspicious occasions like Diwali, Holi, and on birth in the family. Floral Mandana designs was prevalent in Bundi, Tonk, Swaimadhopur, Keroli and Dholpur and Jaipur districts of the state but now with the growing urbanisation it has disappeared from these places. "Mandana have now been transformed into a mere wall decorations and instead of mud and soil houses, concrete houses are in fashion even in rural areas. "There is standardisation of forms and designs in Mandana but in wall decoration designs, it has just reduced to merely eye attracting forms with sharp colours and with no spontaneous rhyme in line and form," Dr Madan Meena of Kota, another expert on folk art and culture said. PTI COR DBR
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