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{{Short description|Indian painter and artist (1945–2021)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Jai Zharotia
| image = File:Jai Zharotia.jpg
| caption = Jai Zharotia in 2017
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1945
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| death_date = 27 March 2021
| death_place =
| education =
| awards =
| website =
| known_for = Paintings, drawings, ceramics and poetry
| spouse = Kanta Zharotia
}}

'''Jai Zharotia''' (1945 - 27 March 2021) was an Indian painter and artist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Master of wit and satire Jai Zharotia passes away|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/mar/29/master-of-wit-and-satire-passes-away-2282882.html|access-date=2021-11-15|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-08|title=Cut and Thrust of Expression|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/cut-and-thrust-of-expression/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Mendiratta">{{Cite news|last=Mendiratta|first=Navneet|date=2006-12-30|title=Web of dreams and desires|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/web-of-dreams-and-desires-106123001052_1.html|access-date=2021-11-15}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Sahitya Kala Parishad|Sahitya Kala Parishad Award]] and he was a recipient of the National Award of the [[Lalit Kala Akademi]].<ref name=":0" /> He was also a printmaker and sculptor and had also a special interest in [[poetry]] and wrote in Hindi.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Jai Zharotia {{!}} JNAF|url=https://jnaf.org/artist/jai-zharotia/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=jnaf.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=15 October 1995 |title=Art exhibitions in Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/your-week/story/19950915-art-exhibitions-in-bombay-new-delhi-and-calcutta-808478-1995-10-15|access-date=2021-11-15|magazine=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Zharotia was born in 1945 in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Mendiratta"/> He graduated in fine arts from the [[College of Art, Delhi|Delhi College of Art]].<ref name=":1" /> He served as an art teacher at the Bal Bhavan before becoming a lecturer at Alma Mater in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-27|title=25 contemporary pieces by Indian artists that cost a lakh or less|url=https://www.vogue.in/magazine-story/25-contemporary-pieces-by-indian-artists-that-cost-a-lakh-or-less/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=Vogue India|language=en-IN}}</ref> After a couple of years he became a professor and head of the painting department at the same university in 2005.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Relia|first=Anil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00ziDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1945|title=The Indian Portrait - 11|date=2020-03-03|publisher=Archer Art Gallery|isbn=978-81-942993-0-1|language=en}}</ref>

Zharotia died on 27 March 2021, due to cardiac arrest.<ref name=":0" />

== Work ==
Zharotia's work has been represented in the collection of the [[National Gallery of Modern Art|National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi]], [[Lalit Kala Akademi]], and [[Sahitya Kala Parishad]].<ref name=":0" /> Zharotia was also known for illustrating short stories by [[Nirmal Verma]] and Bertold Brecht.<ref name=":0" /> He took keen interest in poetry and wrote in Hindi. Zharotia was frequently involved in children's educational projects as an educationist.<ref name=":0" /> In his works, a series of icons that are drawn from the physical world, which, when interpreted by him, change almost magically representing a world that exists only in the furthest reaches of his imagination.<ref name=":0" /> His works feature clowns, jugglers and puppeteers that reveal his empathy for the tragicomic figures.<ref name=":0" />

=== Luqman series ===
Luqman Ali is another fascinated character, fictitious and yet so real. Luqman was invented by the poet [[Soumitra Mohan]] as a character perpetually in search of himself. By way of fantasy, Luqman attempts to overcome childhood fears, his inadequacies, and contradictions. Luqman is hero and villain, active and passive, with positive and negative shades, challenged by mysterious forces and unknown enemies. Often hounded by his own shadow and apparition, he tries but fails to cut his desire with a sword or protect his moral life through sheer physical power. A trickster of sorts, a dreamer at times, Luqman for Jai represents the duality of life, the friction between good and evil, escapes and surrender.<ref>{{Cite web|author=NH Web Desk|date=2021-10-11|title=First edition of Jai Imprint launched to celebrate life and work of versatile painter and poet Jai Zharotia|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/art/first-edition-of-jai-imprint-launched-to-celebrate-life-and-work-of-versatile-painter-and-poet-jai-zharotia|access-date=2021-11-24|website=National Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jai Zharotia {{!}} Luqman (2018) {{!}} Available for Sale {{!}} Artsy|url=https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jai-zharotia-luqman|access-date=2021-11-24|website=www.artsy.net}}</ref>

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[[Category:Artists from New Delhi]]
[[Category:Indian male sculptors]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian sculptors]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sculptors]]
[[Category:Indian male painters]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
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