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Ladies First: Street graffiti art in India gets an unexpected helping hand

Ladies First: Street graffiti art in India gets an unexpected helping hand
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By Preeti Verma Lal  Mar 31, 2019 7:03:32 AM IST (Updated)

“I am not a vandal and I surely do not have vertigo”. A few hours before Ladies First, India’s women-only street art festival (March 25-31) began in Mumbai, graffiti artist Anpu Varkey splashed a feisty stroke on the wall of her existence.

“I am not a vandal and I surely do not have vertigo”. A few hours before Ladies First, India’s women-only street art festival (March 25-31) began in Mumbai, graffiti artist Anpu Varkey splashed a feisty stroke on the wall of her existence.

Vandal? Graffiti is illegal in India - you cannot write $%&*or paint poppies on any wall. Permissions are mandatory. Vertigo? Because standing on a scaffolding taller than Pisa with acrylic emulsion in one hand and art dimensions swirling in the head, vertigo has to be Anpu’s last foe.
Ladies First is India’s first women-only street art festival being held in Mumbai. Photographed here is a wall in Jaisalmer painted by artist Shirin Shaikh.
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