Professor Gajraj Chavan has been visiting the scenic hill station of Matheran for 33 years now. Though it’s not just the hills that are calling out to him, but the nomadic tribals of the area — the Warlis, Thakars and Katkaris, who live on the foothills of Matheran. “Whenever I visited my wife’s family in Matheran, I would notice these adivasis who would climb up the hill to sell their hand-made wares,” says the principal of the Fine Arts Faculty at Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune.