In this children’s picturebook, the major plot revolves around a lizard losing his tail which is a fairly common occurrence. This was primarily targeted towards 4-8 years old. This book tackles the theme of identity and being comfortable in one’s own body and blemishes. We constantly hurt ourselves over strange standards of not only beauty but start policing our individual selves. While every experience is individual, it is also true that it can also have an universal appeal, because complexity is not for the select few.
Responding to a brief about weird and ugly things, I thought of language and how it is used to define and used as a method of standardization.


Here’s a list of things that might be unsetlling and ugly for a few people. These are also things that are culturally specific and language it seems has a huge role in othering, especially food




A mural based on the medicinal plants that were brought over by Scottish Herbalists and Medical practitioners from the Indian subcontinent. These plants have their roots (literally) in the birth of modern medicine in Scotland’s Surgeon’s Hall.

These paintings have been painstakingly made under a watcmakers glass copying adopting methods like those of miniature paintings and company paintings.



Illustration//Editorial
Eklavya Publishing





This was done for 'Eklavya' publishing for their bi-monthly children's magazine,'Chakmak'- Chakmak was launched in July 1985. The magazine is published by Eklavya, a not for profit organisation which was established in 1982 to conduct research and evolve curriculum for school education in India.