Panchavati Ghat (Riverside Reverence)

This riverfront tableau is built from softened planes and broken brushwork, where stacked facades dissolve into one another like memories layered over stone. A quiet shrine-like center anchors the composition, yet the eye is repeatedly drawn downward to the water’s shimmering mirror—an unstable archive that absorbs color, movement, and time. Small figures punctuate the steps with everyday ritual, suggesting a city that endures not through monumentality but through continual, humble presence. The palette of ochres, greys, and sudden vermilion accents holds the scene in a poised tension between dust and light, permanence and passing.