Vrishchik

A monthly arts magazine published from Baroda, Gujarat, from 1969 to 1973. It was founded and edited by the contemporary Indian artists Gulammohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakhar. The tri-lingual publication featured essays, poems, and stories in Gujarati, English and Hindi, alongside printed artworks. It became a platform for the expression of literary, artistic and socio-political views. Its collaborators and contributors included the artists Jeram Patel, Jyoti Bhatt and Vivan Sundaram, the art historian and critic Geeta Kapur, and poets such as Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Gieve Patel.