Kaay Banvaycha? or What Do We Cook Today? engages within the themes of violence and resistance through both its subject matter and symbolic elements. It draws upon feminist history and iconography featuring five monumental women - Artemisia Gentileschi, Bell Hooks, Savitribai Phule, Tarabai Shinde, and Sojourner Truth - each of whom resisted the structures of patriarchy, colonialism, racism, casteism and misogyny. Their lives were marked by systemic violence; yet the painting portrays them in a quiet, everyday act of resilience - preparing an unknown meal. 

The question, What do we cook today? becomes a metaphorical inquiry into how these women strategically prepared and responded to the violence they faced—through their art, writing, activism, and intellectual work. These figures are shown in an act of preparation, as if anticipating the next battle or movement.The domesticity of the scene itself represents a form of resistance against the forces that sought to limit these women to specific roles and spaces. The inclusion of elements like the honey, representing healing and sweetness, suggests that resistance is not only a reaction to violence but also an act of care and restoration. 

The work reinterprets the grandiosity often associated with epic paintings through a feminist lens. While historical epic paintings traditionally glorify male figures in moments of war, discovery, or nation-building, Kaay Banvaycha? subverts this format. Instead, it centres women whose work in art, social justice, education, and activism has had a transformative effect on society, yet their image and labour are often relegated to the domestic sphere. By placing these women in a kitchen setting—surrounded by both real and symbolic objects like the praying mantis, sunflowers, and the lunar calendar—the painting becomes a commentary on the persistence of gendered labour and the emotional and intellectual erasure women face.