Pushpanath Krishnamurthy travelled to India in August

August 15 was the is the 61st anniversary of Indian independence (see the video clip on the right. I was at the JJ arts college that day. It's the country's premier art college, in Bombay (which is called Mumbai these days). I met 23 year old Azmat Ali Khan, an upcoming artist and a rising star in the Bollywood film Illustration and advertising world.

Azmat helped me to meet a number of people from the applied art college. There was a lot of interest among students and staff about Oxfam International's canvas for climate change project, which invites people from all over the world to make works of art on canvases that depict the human impact and adaptation to climate change.

Azmat introduced me to a very inspiring person, Nitin L.Keny Dean, who told us about his experience of the floods in Mumbai in 2006 - their unprecedented nature, and the devastation they caused.

Azmat drew a picture of his experience of the floods. You can see the picture taking shape in the video below.