During the time of Abanindranath Tagore and his contemporaries, the perspective of Indian art studies took a sharp turn from the Western methodology to the Eastern. For the progression of Indian art, artists went on to search for the soul of India. This search broke the dawn of a new era. The medium was heavily dominated by the influence of watercolour during that period. Artists not only drew according to their own subjects, but they also illustrated episodes from the Indian mythological texts — starting from Ramayana, Mahabharata, up until the biography of Buddha. The various ancient regional texts and stories of India, too, became the subject of their artwork. The treasure trove of artworks of Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, K. Venkatappa, and D. P. Roy Choudhury, among others, contributed immensely to the history of Indian art. Today, art is divided into different genres, but there was a time when artists did not let themselves be restricted within any kind of categorisation. On the one hand, they experimented on canvas, on the other, they expressed their art consciousness on different subjects utilising various types of print medium. Be it a line drawing or a watercolour, every medium was used as a way to demonstrate their inner thoughts. The illustrations based on the Epic of Silappadikaram by K. K. Hebbar are not just limited to some line art. Utilizing the simplicity of line and form, he preserved the essence of his own style and continued to convey a new paradigm of modern art- it is truly a gift to us. These sensitive visual narrations by Hebbar of Illango Adigal's epic are its modern manifestation, but continues to transcend the constraints of time with their relevance.