Old age is second childhood. Every weekend, on holidays, and whenever she can squeeze in some time after completing her school work, 17-year-old Tanisha Desai hosts workshops to fill senior children’s lives with colour through her initiative, The Art of Ageing.

The Santacruz-based art enthusiast has been hosting similar workshops for children to raise funds for an orphanage since 2020. “Recently, I signed up my grandmother [Usha Desai] and myself for an art workshop. On reaching there, I saw that everyone in that room was about my age, apart from my grandmother. She is 80 years old, and despite having been an artist when she was young, she was struggling to create the artwork. She kept asking me questions, observed me closely as I made my artwork, but found it difficult to do the same thing because her hands were shivering,” Tanisha recalls.