JUST PEOPLE & STORIES
These are just ordinary people and yet so extra-ordinary in their everyday life. MEENAKSHI RAO caught up with these story makers of a different kind in the scenic and quiet Kangra Valley LIFE IS A COLOURFUL CANVAS Nishat Rehman, 34 | wall/street visual artist Don’t be shocked by a sudden and unexpected splash of colours bursting out of an otherwise staid Government school building tucked away in the unknown hamlet of Rakh, somewhere between Dharamshala and Palampur. It almost feels like an Amazonian parrot has lost its way into Himachal and is inquisitively perched on a wall, ready to fly away into the dense pinewood forest greens surrounding this school which has come to life much after its principal went door-to-door urging parents to send their children to this school. Currently, this Senior Secondary School has just 264 schoolchildren on its rolls with some classes having only one or two students! But that has not deterred one Nishat Rehma...