The colours of exile

 In a spartan apartment, in temporary exile in east Delhi, Shahla Vinita Karim unscrolls rolls of painted canvases so you can view them. On a softboard in the bedroom, she is painting on two canvases simultaneously with acrylic.

 Recently back from an art camp in Mumbai where she rubbed shoulders with Anjolie Ela Menon and Krishen Khanna, saw Paresh Maity and Neeraj Goswami wield brush, cloth and paint, and shared a room with Seema Guraiya, she