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Seventy nine year old Arjumand Fatehally owes her 30 years of creative insights to a street urchin. In the last so many years, Fatehally has created beautiful and aesthetic artefacts from everything that the rest of us regard as ‘junk’.

by dhanushag
About thirty years ago, while Fatehally was waiting at a bus stop in Madurai, a street urchin who was attempting to stick the top of a discarded cigarette box with her saliva caught her attention. Realising that the child was making a toy out of the cigarette box, Fatehally sat down with her, and helped the child make her little ‘toy’. Though she missed her bus, Fatehally credits the little girl even now. “She is my inspiration. I’ve always been an arts and crafts person, but it all started out with that little child. I wish I could see her again, and tell her about what she has inspired” said the 79 year old artist.
With most of the ‘artsy’ population constantly criticizing about how crafts is a dying trade, Fatehally has a room full of beautiful crafts that she has made in the last 30 years. A teacher by profession, the 79-year-old artist has previously held eight solo exhibitions to her credit including exhibitions in Coles Park, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, the India Institute of World Culture, Presidency School and at Bal Bhavan in Bangalore. Fatehally dreams of igniting in every child – the desire to create their own play materials from 'waste'.
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