What would the world be like without a clock? Surely it would keep ticking, albeit without any sense of timing. And maybe then having "no time" would be a legitimate excuse. But for paper artist, illustrator and writer Samir Bharadwaj, this plays out well only in imagination.

Although he credits his entry into paper craft to chance, the 39-year-old went on to develop a deep attachment with the art form. When Bharadwaj was three, he was introduced to origami by his father, who worked in the water treatment chemical industry in Mumbai. The first object he learnt to make was a crane — one of the most classic pieces in Japanese origami.
A paper sculpture of swans, by Samir Bharadwaj