An artist paints a boat as part of beautification ahead of Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad.

An artist mixes colors as he paints boats as part of beautification ahead of Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad. Millions of pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious...

Indian artists from Promocare Group work on a sadhu portrait on the pillar of Rambagh flyover being created as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela festival in A...

Artists from Promocare Group work on a sadhu portrait on the pillar of Rambagh flyover being created as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela festival in Allahaba...

An artwork of freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Allahabad as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela. (art agency: Ram Suttar)

People pass by a wall mural in Allahabad as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela. (art agency: Promicare)

A wall mural in Allahabad as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela. (art agency: Promicare)

Making Sangam city beautiful ahead of Kumbh Mela as part of the 'Paint My City' project in Allahabad. (art agency: Ram Suttar)

A mural on the wall being created as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad. (art agency: Ram Suttar)

A wall mural in Allahabad as part of the 'Paint My City' project ahead of Kumbh Mela. (art agency: Delhi Street Art)

Making Sangam city beautiful ahead of Kumbh Mela as part of the 'Paint My City' project in Allahabad. (art agency: Delhi Street Art)

A woman walks past a graffiti artwork depicting, from left, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, German Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Russian Pr...

A coloured sadhu appears on a tree near Sangam ghat

A selfie with the deer woman (art agency: Ram Suttar)

Canvas Context

Spot the real window on this railway colony wall (art agency: Ram Suttar)

A dancer heads for the truck near Shivkuti Ghat (art agency: Promicare)

Roadside Apparitions

Buffaloes with their fluorescent painted horns on the walls of railway colony (art agency: Ram Suttar)

In Sync

A sadhu at the door of the newly painted Kumbh Mela office (art agency: Promicare)

Spectrum in saffron

A resting cow foregrounds a vibrant, lost-in-prayer Hanuman at Arail Ghat (art agency: Delhi Street Art)

A child at the chaukhat of a haloed Shankaracharya in Arail Ghat (art agency: Delhi Street Art)