Tribal man with computer Tribal man with computer

Metalworkers from Odisha created a statuette in the 'dhokra' or lost-wax method of metal casting, common to Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.
This craftwork was made to highlight the importance of gender empowerment through literacy and education.

The image that formed under creative minds and hands was of an adivasi woman, fully adorned with traditional ornamentation, confidently working at a computer, complete with peripherals such as a mouse and keyboard in Devanagari letters. A similar image with two persons instead of one, and the keyboard with English letters, was made to highlight the millennium goal of women’s empowerment for the United Nations in India.

Subhash Arora and those who helped him had to visit an internet café to study the computer screen, keyboard and mouse- with which they were unfamiliar - to replicate these objects in the 'dhokra' style.