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Born in New Delhi, Arpana is a self-taught artist,
Caur's work draws strongly from literature.
Mysticism is a strong leitmotif of her work,
translating on to the canvas mystic thought
from literature, devotional poetry and religious
thought, most seen in her series on Sufi saints.
Caur responds to political events like the
Hiroshima atomic bomb, the Sikh massacre,
and violence against women, although it is
women's everyday world that is her frequent
subject. Stylistically, she also draws on Pahari
miniatures for its arrangement of the pictorial space.