All constituencies covered, but not for polls

Watercolour artist Ajit Plakkad is seeing the State Assembly elections from a different perspective.

 He says that each constituency has some unique historical, geographical, environmental, social or cultural aspect to boast about

But outside the boundaries of the constituencies these aspects hardly get the kind of attention they warrant.

At Madhilil, on the outskirts of Kollam city, he is giving final touches to 140 sketches, each portraying a unique feature of a constituency.

To capture them, Ajit and his friends, Titus S. Kumar, Shyam Sasidharan, Tennyson, and Jijo Johnson, embarked on a tour of the constituencies from Neyyattinkara to Manjeswaram, deviating from the beaten election campaign track

The sketches were drawn by Ajit while camping in each constituency. 

They include a Jain temple in Trithala, which the outside world hardly knows, and all-women election campaigns at Munnar town coming under the Devikulam constituency.

The friends have now decided to share the project with the public, christening it “140 Sketches”.

 They plan to organise an exhibition of these sketches in Kollam soon after the election and bring out a book under the same name.