Vardhaman Book on Jainism

Author(s): Jayshree Menon
Publisher: Bennete Coleman & Co Ltd

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Widely acknowledged for a research in the field of Jain miniatures, Saryu Doshi is the former editor of Marg magazine and present honorary director of Mumbai's prestigious National Gallery of Modern Art. Here she discusses the influences and interactions that have shaped her learning and her life
EXTE MEHER MARFATA PHOTOGRAPHS: ASHESH SHAH
OF SEMINIATURES,
MUSEUMS AND MORE..
Here is what did happen instead.
Following a comfortable childhood spent at Mumbai's Laburnum Road with parents Nagindas and Leelavati Daftary and attending two schools, Queen Mary's and St. Columba, she went to Elphinstone College and to the J.J. School of Arts. "But it was with a constant yearning for some thing else; I wasn't content with carrying on being educated until married off or something."
Marriage to automotive engineer Vinod Doshi from the illustrious Premier Automobiles clan may not have shaken things up for her had it not been
for her husband. "I was barely inspired to do anything, he was the true motivator." Travelling with him through the US and Europe, she registered 'haphazardly', for courses ranging from history of Indian art and philosophy to psychology and adult education. "It was only after I enrolled at Ann Arbor University that things crystallised a bit more. From being a good student in school, I had dropped to becoming a mediocre one in college, but here I was suddenly hitting A's! It was heady. I felt I was finally getting somewhere I liked. I pushed myself to work better and better, and
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