Ginne Venkateswarlu, who is known to draw paintings under the pen-name ‘Sagar’, has paid an artistic tribute to Sri Ramanujacharya by painting the saint in dots, as the 13-day programme to inaugurate his mammoth statue in the name of ‘Statue of Equality’ at Muchintal near Hyderabad begins.
A faculty of art at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture (SVITSA) run by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirupati, Dr. Venkateswarlu has drawn hundreds of images by using pointillism in a span of over 20 years.