the relationship that rural folk develop with their livestock in their daily survival etc. is a recurring theme throughout his paintings. this relation is an outcome of the society and “the socialist ideology” that he had developed over the years. “my father went to madhya pradesh as a labourer. so in some of my works i have painted the narratives of the life of the villagers as migrant labourers, their feelings at being away from their villages and family,” he explains.