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5/4/2026

The Man Who Found India’s First Art Gallery: Remembering V.S. Wakankar

Dr. V.S. Wakankar didn’t just discover caves; he unearthed a lost chapter of the human story. When he stepped into the silent, painted galleries of Bhimbetka in 1957, he bridged a 30,000-year gap between modern India and its prehistoric ancestors. His life’s work—from tracing the mythical Saraswati River to documenting thousands of rock shelters—transformed the rugged landscape of Central India into the world’s oldest open-air museum

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