In retrospect, it does become apparent now how simplistic it was and how it reinforces stereotypes, but for me it was also what accentuated my desire to study Indian history, a passion which I followed up later in life. Later, in the course of my work at Christie’s, I came across the works of Chitra Ganesh, another expat Indian in the US, who uses the Amar Chitra Katha as a leitmotif, assembling the homogenic elements and distilling the artworks with sexual and gender tension and racial issues. It makes you realise how, for my generation of people who grew up in the Seventies outside the country, it acted as a tie between the world that we inhabited and the world we had left behind, teasing out the idiosyncrasies of our own lives.