Jai Zharotia was born in Delhi in 1945 and did his professional training in Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Art. He worked in Bal Bhawan on children's educational projects, before becoming a lecturer at his alma mater.

Zharotia believes imagination is god's gift to man and he believes that it is this that provokes him to create. Here is an Indian artist who tells stories through his art. He draws upon all aspects of nature and everyday life, whether living or non living. He believes everything has emotions and it is this belief that leads him to look beyond their confines and conjure up the powerfully evocative and communicative images we see in his work.

A world that gives birth to new dimensions and gives birth to a parallel reality.

Jai Zharotia has received several awards in his career, from the 1979 Sahitya Kala Parishad Awards and 1980 Silk Screen Prints to the AIFACS award in 1987 for Ceramics and Drawing and the 1993 Lalit Kala Akademi National Award for painting. He has been part of several prestigious group shows and workshops in India and abroad and has had more than 25 solo shows across the globe. His paintings are part of several institutional and private collections in the country and outside.