K.R. Sunil’s exhibitions at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, portray forgotten circus and folk artistes from Kerala—capturing lives once filled with wonder, now touched by loss.

Between the 1960s and 1990s, when the circus artistes returned home, the villages of Thalassery celebrated. They made a grand entry — in taxi cars, dressed in flamboyant clothes, faces dusted with ...

There was a dusty silence in the main ring, where seating rises in circles. The red and teal strings used for aerial tricks sag with the weariness of the past 40 days of performances. At ...