Bandana Jain: What it is like to be a female artist in India today This International Women’s Day, Bandana Jain dives into what it is like to be a female artist in India, the challenges, as well as female artists who inspire her Bandana Jain with her artwork 'Centre of Universe' from The Brown Age (2022) Bandana Jain has come a long way since she made her way to Mumbai’s JJ School of Arts as a young and aspiring female artist. Honing her artistry by using corrugated cardboard as a medium, she set on the part of sustainability very early on and has grown by leaps and bounds since then. Over the years, in her time as an artist, Bandana says being a female artist in India hasn’t been easy at all. She shares, “As we live in a male-dominated society. Our status is not seen at par with them, and our ability is always being judged.” This often, she says, makes it difficult to get the opportunity that women in India deserve because the world is not that comfortable to rely o