Traditionally scroll paintings, these are a story telling medium for the Kathakalus or gypsy story tellers, who troupe though villages singing & enacting ballads from epics like the Ramayana or Mahabharata.
‘He is the GandaBerunda, Lord Vishnu’s avataar’, Ramesh Vaikuntam offered when he caught me staring at this curious two headed mythical bird on a Cheriyal painting. In the Warangal District in Telangana, the Cheriyal village homes this beautiful art.
Traditionally scroll paintings, these are a story telling medium for the Kathakalus or gypsy story tellers, who troupe though villages singing & enacting ballads from epics like the Ramayana or Mahabharata.
‘He is the GandaBerunda, Lord Vishnu’s avataar’, Ramesh Vaikuntam offered when he caught me staring at this curious two headed mythical bird on a Cheriyal
