Ten years ago when I visited the Sree Chitra Art Gallery in Thiruvananthapuram, and spotted the original Raja Ravi Varma paintings for the first time, I said to myself, 'this is absolutely fake'," says Sayali Phadke, recalling a time before she took a fancy to art. Phadke, 24, now freelances as an art director and that experience in the Kerala capital led her to execute a zine called Ravi Varma Decoded seven months ago. And in about 20 pages, Phadke proposes critical questions — not just about the painter's style of realism in the 19th century but about art itself.