Artists come together to raise funds for India as country faces Covid-19 second wave

Artists come together to raise funds for India as country faces Covid-19 second wave

A number of artists and authors have come together to raise funds for India as the country battles a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Initiatives like Artists for India, for example, brought together 70 writers, including Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, Ali Smith, Jodi Picoult, Fatima Bhutto, Avni Doshi, Megha Majumdar and William Dalrymple, to sell signed copies of their books, with the proceeds going to Mission Oxygen, a non-profit organisation that purchases oxygen concentrators for hospitals and nursing homes in India.

Canadian visual artist Alison Dunlop has also pledged a watercolour work to the highest donor.