I am self-taught. I began to paint when I found two old brushes, a school art book from forty years ago and six bottles of paints in my childhood home in Forbesganj. during the Covid lockdown. My mother’s garden blossomed in the monsoon rain and the old neglected summer home in Forbesganj came alive again. I want to share that sense of life continuing.
Ruchira Gupta is an Emmy winning journalist and founder of the anti sex trafficking NGO, Apne Aap that helps women and girls exit systems of prostitution. I Kick and I Fly is her debut fiction novel.