New illustrated biography of Raja Ravi Varma – National Herald

Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan has now penned a biography geared toward kids however which may even enchantment to readers throughout the spectrum.

“Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma” (Westland/Crimson Panda), is an inspirational tribute to a precocious little one who, whereas others of his age have been busy taking part in hopscotch with their pals, was portray on the partitions of his home.

“The concept of a sequence on Indian artists had been in my thoughts for some time and I used to be writing poems impressed by Raja Ravi Varma’s artwork. As I noticed it, right here was a well-known nineteenth century Indian painter who blended European aesthetics with Indian photographs and related the world greater than a century in the past, and but so few kids appeared to know him,” Srinivasan mentioned.