For artist Kiran Thacker, life at Santiniketan in West Bengal offers much food for thought. Living amid natural beauty, verdant foliage and inspired by the chirping of birds, Thacker follows a routine where post her jogging and gardening sessions, she sculpts and draws for seven to eight hours everyday.

Art by the day
Her subjects are often the people she meets or certain events that brighten her day, be it observing hordes of people trying to enter a bus or the arrival of a circus in town. “All my sketches are inspired from simple living forms and structures. A human face/ body is the most inspirational of all living forms on earth,” she explains.