An extraordinarily talented, incredibly beautiful, and deliciously free-spirited Amrita Sher-Gil refused to paint Jawaharlal Nehru-she found him too handsome-but created iconic artwork on common folk to emerge as India's most celebrated painter. She was art rolled into a life, and also a life spread out as art. This book is the story of a proscribed relationship between Amrita and her first cousin, Victor Egan. She flowered and, ironically, also wilted under its intense gaze.
The unconventional companionship, though, ended with her death under questionable circumstances. Was Victor responsible for it? Was the tragedy inevitable because it rested on the bed of a strange mix of great hope and greater despair? Amrita & Victor engages with issues of passion and desire, morality and social ethos, individual choice vs. societal practises, and dreams lived, and dreams shattered.
Ashwini Bhatnagar is an experienced journalist-author, and a film writer. He has worked with leading national newspapers, including The Times of India, The Tribune, Sunday Mail, and The Pioneer in editorial leadership positions. He has sixteen books to his credit, most of them biographies. The Lotus Years, Political Life in India in the Time of Rajiv Gandhi was nominated for the Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year at TataLit Live 2020. Several of his books have also been acquired for film adaption.
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