Rebel with a paintbrush
Amrita Sher-gil Rebel with a paintbrush Anita Vachharajani (With illustrations by Kalyani Ganpathy) Number of pages: 182 First published: 2018 Publishers: HarperCollins P-ISBN: 978-93-5277-473-9 Amrita Some time ago a friend talked of how the mahaul one grows up amidst has an everlasting impact on our lives. We discussed Shabana Azmi – how the scholars she would have interacted with and the poetry she would have heard during her childhood (and youth) would have been an initiation with few parallels to learning language and a lot more. Similarly, Indira Gandhi - the museum at Allahabad shows her with Mohandas Gandhi in one image, with Rabindranath Tagore in another and so on during his childhood (and youth); add to this her being so widely travelled during those. Amrita appears to have a childhood on similar lines. A childhood which shaped her life. Her father counted Muhammed Iqbal, the poet, amongst his friends. Photography was a hobby and he bought a camera during the 1890’s. Her unc...