There is a man who lives in the Telok Kurau area in east Singapore. His name is Lim Tze Peng, and he's 99 years old. Till the early 1980s, he was a teacher in a government school before becoming the principal. But once he retired, Lim picked up the paintbrush. And he's been at it since then. The man has painted every single day of what are supposed to be his twilight years, as if it's a religious practice that can't be messed with. He starts in the afternoon and doesn't stop till his body tells him that enough is enough. "In fact," says Ting Tan — a consultant with Singapore's Ode to Art Gallery, which is partnering with Bhau Daji Lad Museum to showcase Lim's works in India for the very first time — "If he lived another 100 years, he'd still paint every day for the rest of his life."

Lim's painting of Singapore before it was modernised