Modern Indian art is shaped through several celebrated and many unknown hands. Maledath Bharatan a Textile Chemist from Kerala who initially finds a job at Mumbai, then joining the Communist Party of India, actively works under the cultural wing to inspire artists toward radical social awareness. M. Bharatan though lesser documented have worked closely toward the formation of the Progressive Artists Group especially with Bakre, Gade and F N Souza.
Leela M. Bharatan, classmate of artist Mohan Samant and Bhanu Athaiyya at Sir J J School of Art, radically shifted to Batik printing as her medium of expression from painting in the early modernist phase where painting was considered as a higher medium for art making.
Apart from art making Leela Bharatan vigorously engaged in the welfare of tribal children from the neighbourhood of Badlapur, Thane by setting up a school for them.
Faandee is documenting and researching the archives to surface the narratives and fill the gaps in the historic grand narrative of Modernism in Indian Art.
