Perspectives Over Time

The design

These essays follow a life that starts in Kashmir and keeps its warmth wherever it goes, like the fire in the title. So Kashmir sets the look, a Dal Lake night framed in walnut wood with chinar red and saffron light, and each painting is cubist, one life seen from many sides; the cover is a man in a pheran with a kangri glowing at his heart.

Colours: Dal Lake night, walnut, chinar red, saffron gold

The design

These essays look at the ten heads in all of us with honest, gentle self-recognition: wry, never judging, and ending in hope. Ravana’s ten heads are a stage character in Yakshagana folk theatre, and the essays treat the vices as roles we play, so the art borrows its masks, in warm clay, heart red and calm sage; on the cover, ten heads sit inside one calm profile.

Colours: Warm clay, heart red, calm sage, shadow umber

The design

These essays are written with wonder and watchful hope: every invention answers one question and opens a bigger one. So the art is a glowing line drawing, like a lamp on the desk at night, in amber and teal on deep blue; the cover is Jantar Mantar drawn in light under the stars.

Colours: Lamp amber, spark teal, deep blue, paper