Nandita Das Instagram – #Repost @kishore.write • • • • • • Spent the better part of the day at Jatin Das’s studio where the octogenarian artist is overseeing the vast and complex operation that a career retrospective at NGMA involves. Managed a peek at some of his works, the restoration under process for very early paintings, his orderly and organised filing systems…a life in art spread out around him on canvas and paper, in terracotta and metal. Listened to him recite one of his own poems on the infiniteness of the ‘line’. Got ticked off, of course, for not staying in regular touch, heard some lovely stories about other artists, absent and present. Wound up with a great ghar-wala meal. A day well spent?