I love work­ing in acrylics, since it’s a pretty flex­i­ble medium. And plus there’s lots of room for error. You can cover up your boo-boos quickly and rework por­tions you’re unhappy with. But trans­par­ent water­colours, which I’ve been try­ing to get a hang of lately, is a totally dif­fer­ent ball­game. One error and your whole […]

We had Yard­boy, who ditched us and went back to his home coun­try. We have Nancy Gandhi who writes evoca­tively about life in Chen­nai as an out­sider. Here are two more to add to the list. India from another per­spec­tive. Daniel Brett, ‘the sahib of behala’ and Sonia Toor, a ‘British Indian in Bom­bay’ (Sonia, […]