India, Sept. 14 -- Madhvi Parekh, 84, grew up in the quiet corners of Gujarat's Sanjaya village, whose memory she continues to hold through the scent of its monsoon soil and crackle of firewood. Destined to emerge as one of the important painters in Independent India, her hands, worn with time, tell stories of her village.

Wife of another renowned painter, Manu Parekh, Madhvi is a self-taught visual storyteller who honed her craft without the tutelage of a mentor at an art school. Yet her canvases are a vibrant museum of recollections, depicting the fading rhythms of village life once lived, now lost under the weight of modernity. Through her art, which is on display at DAG Gallery in Taj Palace, Colaba, Madhvi preserves the essence of r...