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Tongue as a tool for art
Ever thought art is possible using your mouth, to be precise, the tongue? This is what a youth Akhilva Sharma of Vankeswaram village in Amrabad mandal is doing.
Akhilva Sharma of Vankeswaram village achieves a rare feat
Achampet (Mahabubnagar): Ever thought art is possible using your mouth, to be precise, the tongue? This is what a youth Akhilva Sharma of Vankeswaram village in Amrabad mandal is doing. He is using his tongue, besides hands, to draw figures, after having completed the epic Ramayana with 70 figures, making it meaningful and clear even for a man on the street. His Ramayana figures bring all-round praise from everyone watching them.
Born in the Nallamala forest, he has completed masterpieces on beautiful Telangana rural areas, traditional rural living, his favourite politicians as also gods, thanks to the encouragement provided by parents Yedla Parvathalu and Nagamani, besides his own deep interest and creative thinking.
Art works of Sharma have awed both the onlookers and fellow artists, as he has managed to achieve success even while trying to be different from colleagues in the field.
He has proved that there is nothing that is impossible to achieve if one has the determination and urge to do it, his poverty notwithstanding. His family has to work for sustenance. They had gone to Hyderabad for finding a means of living. The family now stays in Qutbullapur. Parvathalu is a bus driver of a local private school. Interestingly, Sharma has shown interest in drawing since childhood.
Parvathalu’s encouragement led Akhilva in to a self-taught art work, depicting politicians, national figures and freedom fighters, besides waterfalls, forests, hills, farm fields in their virtual form. The youth uses the mix of leaves, fruit juices, coal besides sand to make colours for his art works, thus winning laurels of art-lovers. He won gold medals right from his young age in art competitions not only in the state, but also in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi.
His composed arts work of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and father of Constitution Dr B R Ambedkar using his tongue and they stand out for their real and natural depiction. Sharma makes it a point to draw these two figures wherever he goes. He has become a role model for taking up art by several students of the Nallamala forest. His attitude towards art is sure to make everyone move forward with gusto.
About his future plans, Sharma, who has completed Intermediate, told The Hans India that he wants to do Ph D, with fond hope of receiving support from the state government and donors, after targeting PG study in fine arts. Sadly, his poverty is coming in the way. His father has appealed to the government for help.
Says Parvathalu: Seeing my son’s drawings give me lot of pleasure, particularly Ramayana, of which he learnt after visiting Bhadrachalam. I have no means to enable him to pursue Ph D. For this the government and donors should come forward.
Vankeswaram is proud that he belongs here. Our village has won laurels thanks to his art and drawing works, including the rare use of his tongue. Residents of the village want the state to come to the rescue of this poor family and help it achieve the youngster’s goals, said village upa sarpanch Anand.
By T Ravinder Goud
