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The Whispers of Immortality: The origin myth of river Narmada
Kailash Pradhan | Apoorva Mishra | Achyut Siddu
Based on the origin myth of the river Narmada, The Whispers of Immortality is an illustrated book project that emerges from oral tradition and collaborative image-making. The narrative is drawn from the account of Pardhaan bards Gangaram Uikey, Narayandeen Tekam and Balaram Vyam of Patangarh, Madhya Pradesh and visualized in collaboration with Pardhaan Gond artist Kailash Pradhan, bringing sacred geography, memory, and myth into a sequential painted form.
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Book Details
ISBN: 978-81-975775-8-1
Pages: 64
Number of illustrations: 24
Size: 8.8 x 12.5" (225 x 318 mm), Hard cover
Date of Publishing: 2025
Language(s): English
Publisher(s): Loksutr Social LLP
Rights Available: World rights
About the Author
Achyut Siddu
Achyut Siddu is an architect, writer, curator, and the co-founder of Loksutr. His practice brings together literary, ethnographic, and curatorial approaches to work with Indigenous communities in documenting and reimagining traditional knowledge systems. He is especially interested in how oral traditions can be shaped into contemporary visual and narrative forms without losing their cultural depth.
ABOUT THE Artist(s)
Kailash Pradhan
Kailash Pradhaan is a Pardhaan Gond artist from Patangarh, Dindori, Madhya Pradesh. He belongs to a community whose long tradition of song, rhythm, and narration has sustained the oral histories of the Gond people across generations. Drawing from this inheritance, Kailash translates ancestral memory into visual form with a language marked by flowing lines, vibrant colour, and a deep sensitivity to the natural world. His practice reflects a close engagement with myth, ecology, and community knowledge. In The Whispers of Immortality, he contributes to the visual retelling of the Narmada origin myth, carrying the rhythm of oral narration into paint.
Apoorva Mishra
Apoorva Mishra is an architect, artist, urban designer, researcher, and the co-founder of Loksutr. Her work is grounded in community-led design, Indigenous knowledge systems, and collaborative artistic practice. She has played a key role in shaping the visual language of Loksutr’s projects through contextual research, curatorial design, and close work with artists and storytellers. Through her keen aesthetic sense and deep contextual understanding, she has shaped the vision and visual language of the book which are reflected in this book through its colour direction, composition, and overall visual flow, creating a cohesive and immersive experience.
ABOUT THE ARTFORM
Pardhaan Gond Art
Pardhaan Gond art is a contemporary Indian art form which evolved around Jangarh Singh Shyam as its progenitor in the 1980's. The art form is now carried forward and developed by the people from his own tribe. Traditionally, the Pardhaans who were the bards of the Gond tribe, sang songs of the ancestors of their Gond patrons and other epics.
Their paintings thus predominantly depict this intangible cultural heritage which comprise of lores, idioms, metaphors, proverbs, social practices, their deities and rituals associated with them.