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For Rupak Rajendra Munje, colour arrived earlier language. At 29, this abstract creator has built a quiescent but dependable beingness done canvases filled with fluid strokes, layered pigments and the distinctive drip patterns that person travel to specify his work. Non-verbal and connected the autism spectrum, Rupak communicates mostly done creation — a signifier that began arsenic therapy and gradually evolved into purpose.

Born successful Hyderabad and present surviving at Ranjith Road in Kotturpuram, Rupak was diagnosed with autism and intelligence disablement astatine the property of two-and-a-half. His mother, Ranjana Rajendra Munje, recalls the uncertainty that followed. “There was precise small consciousness astir autism then. We were wholly clueless and had to dilatory larn astir therapies, peculiar acquisition and structured enactment to assistance him,” she says.