After India got its independence, there was a call for individuals to join the nation-building team. It had all sorts of people, freedom fighters, industrialists, thought leaders, and also artists, Upendra Maharathi was one among them. He was an artist and designer whose most significant work is in the area of arts and crafts. Upendra Maharathi helped revive 22 craft forms and played a key role in bringing the Madhubani artform from the walls of houses to paper.

He was born in 1908 and died in 1981. The thing that struck me the most is the fact that in his lifetime of seventy-seven years, he did so much.