This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. After surviving the premonition in childhood, Dhiraj Singh started appreciating the value of life. Additionally, the life of people at nearby mental hospital strengthened this realization even more.But he pursued mental hospital people with an entirely different perspective.He perceived it as an idea of creative and crazy art and with this started the journey from lightness to darkness. He grew up and started with journalism. This was how he became aware of abstract art- an art beyond the form.His insights made him associate art deeply with emotions. This got reflected when he exposed himself to the world of X-Ray art. His art work includes Urban Shaman, Greening of Iracus, The Black Tide, The Throne, Kali and Trapped in Air. The talk further constitutes the idea behind these works including a brief mention of the emotions that inspired the creation.

An accomplished media personality and artist. He is an alumnus of the esteemed Asian College of Journalism and has attended Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise’s well-known creative writing workshop. His writings have included in-depth pieces on art and literature which have been published in leading newspapers and magazines of the country such as the Times of India, Economic Times, Hindustan Times, Outlook, Tehelka, Art & Deal and The Little Magazine. He started his career with the Asian Age, then did stints at Hindustan Times, Outlook, Times of India before joining electronic media with Headlines Today, where he produced many
daily news-based shows and programmes. Since 2010 he is Programming Consultant at Lok Sabha Television and has been taking care of the content for the Channel introducing. During his time at Lok Sabha TV he has introduced new and innovative programmes that build upon the mandate of the Channel as a bridge between the people and their elected representatives. He also anchors two very popular TV shows of LSTV viz. 'Know Your MP' and 'Fairs of India'.
He is also a self-taught artist who makes abstract art and installations from X-ray plates. He has translated into English Asghar Wajahat’s much-celebrated Hindi play about the Partition of India called Jisne Lahore Nahi Dekhya…(‘Unborn in Lahore’). He has also translated short stories by Munshi Premchand, Nirmal Verma, Bhisham Sahni and Ajeet Cour. He is currently working on a novel in English.

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