India’s illustrators add colour to traditional maps with their artwork Updated: Updated: December 15, 2020 10:33 IST Vibrant fauna, intriguing topography, tribal relations... A lot is left out of the picture in staid, traditional maps. India’s illustrators are steadily bridging the gap with their own, artistic wildlife maps Share Article AAA Vibrant fauna, intriguing topography, tribal relations... A lot is left out of the picture in staid, traditional maps. India’s illustrators are steadily bridging the gap with their own, artistic wildlife maps “The Northern border of Andhra Pradesh and the Southern border of Odisha are ecologically similar — the landscapes, the wildlife, everything,” says illustrator Sudarshan Shaw, pointing out — over a phone call from Bhubaneshwar — how the possibility of such similarities doesn’t occur to most of us when we think of these States as two separate entities. Sudarshan dreams of drawing a map of India some day, where the borders are based on Nature, and not States.