Photo Essay: The Secret Life of Studios
Sobha Singh was someone who had served in the army overseas, but had settled to the life of a painter in a remote Himalayan village. He had created the most incredible portraits of the Sikh gurus, his realism and a little bit of imagination bringing them to life in hundreds of thousands of homes and on altars—not unlike a latter-day Raja Ravi Varma. What fascinated me at the time, and I remember three visits over the course of two years, was a deep sense of melancholy, the stories that flew like bees around a hive, of Norah Richards, the potter, whose grandson had drowned in the fountain outside her studio.
- ▪Sobha Singh was someone who had served in the army overseas, but had settled to the life of a painter in a remote Himalayan village.
- ▪He had created the most incredible portraits of the Sikh gurus, his realism and a little bit of imagination bringing them to life in hundreds of thousands of homes and on altars—not unlike a latter-day Raja Ravi Varma.
- ▪What fascinated me at the time, and I remember three visits over the course of two years, was a deep sense of melancholy, the stories that flew like bees around a hive, of Norah Richards, the potter, whose grandson had drowned in the founta
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| Original publisher | Readers Digest |
| Canonical URL | https://www.readersdigest.in/features/story-photo-series-the--secret--life-of-studios-128142?utm_source=rss |
| Publication time | Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:33:40GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T23:24:42.208Z |
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