The many ghats of Varanasi

Seema Sharma Shah’s series ‘NAMAMI GANGÉ’ focuses on the Ganga river and its natural flow downwards from the Himalayas.

Creative minds create for many reasons. A few pour what they are feeling, a few are fond of expressing their ideas and others leave tracings of how they view the world in their works. Seema Sharma Shah has been creating for a long time and has similar reasons. “I began painting a lot earlier while growing up,” she says as she walks me through her exhibition, ‘NAMAMI GANGÉ’ at the Siddharta Art Gallery.