Varanasi: Art With an Edge.

(From India Today)

Byline: Shuchi Sinha

An elderly man with a straggly beard, long, spindly fingers and a pair of scissors. An artist. A non-believer in the conventional. Ramesh Mohiley, 68, a longtime fixture of Kabir Chauraha in Varanasi, has an unusual talent. All he needs is a bit of paper. As his scissors fly across it, the rhythmic snipping reveals a startling likeness of just about anything or anyone. And this is his life, as well as his livelihood.

Portraits, profiles, landscapes and still life-all that a brush and paint can do, he can do with an interesting twist. The most striking are the single-cut portraits. Made by cutting out the essential features of a face on a piece of dark …