Observe the image and answer the following question.
In the painting in the image, Krishna dances with Radha and the sakhis. How are Krishna and the gopis drawn, and what does this convey?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Drawn in the same proportion, so humans and God are on the same level
Option (1) Drawn in the same proportion, so humans and God are on the same level — Correct. This is Rasa-Lila by Kshitindranath Majumdar. Krishna and the gopis are drawn with the same proportion, and this brings humans and God on the same level.
Option (2) Krishna drawn larger than the gopis, so God stands above humans — Incorrect. Krishna is not drawn larger than the gopis. He has the same proportion as them, so God is not set above humans.
Option (3) Drawn with thick outlines, so the local is made to signify the national — Incorrect. Thick outlines and making the local signify national belong to Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child. The figures in Rasa-Lila are drawn with simple, flowing, delicate lines.
Option (4) Drawn with calligraphic lines, so a poem seems to find visual form — Incorrect. The calligraphic line and a poem finding visual form are said of Chughtai’s Radhika. They are not said of the figures in Rasa-Lila.
NCERT (2026-27): “Rasa-Lila This is a watercolour painting in wash technique portraying the divine life of Sri Krishna made by Kshitindranath Majumdar (1891–1975). … In this painting, Krishna is dancing with Radha and sakhis, and the background of trees creates a simple village atmosphere as illustrated in the Bhagvata Purana and Gita Govinda. Figures and their cloths are drawn with simple, flowing, delicate lines. The sublime moods of characters are captured well. Krishna and gopis are drawn with same proportion. Thus, humans and God are brought on the same level.”
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