The protagonists of her paintings wear that familiar faraway look. They could be the ‘Goat People’, the dark man in a singlet, his arm tattooed, a parrot perched on his shoulder; his bosomy wife in a mauve blouse, her head covered with a blue-green dupatta; the son in a tee and shorts, and the two goats seemingly deep in slumber. The melancholic woman sitting on ‘The Red Charpoi’, her little son with blue skin and corkscrew
