In 1972, Altaf, Navjot (right) and Shobha Ghare executed a 127-feet long and eight-feet high mural at Dawoodbhoy Fazalbhoy High School at Bhendi Bazaar, which reflected children’s drawings from a school in Kihim. “It was our first collaborative work together. We used coloured ceramic tiles specially manufactured by Johnson Tiles,” says Navjot

We spot a gleaming, ebony-hued round table in Navjot Altaf's living room at her Bandra residence. If the table could speak, it would recall how the late artist-activist Altaf Mohamedi (1942-2005) would sit on one of its chairs - the one that offered a 45-degree angle view of the TV set - for hours to watch cricket matches. "His first choice was to be a professional cricketer but a ligament problem didn't let him pursue it. So, he turned to art and literature," reminisces Navjot, his 68-year-old wife and well-known multimedia artist. She first met Altaf in 1970, when she was a student at Sir JJ School of Art. He had displayed his works on the pavement gallery outside Jehangir Art Gallery. This was one of his first attempts to carry art beyond haloed confines.