En route to the gallery, Radha Shamrao Bakle tells us of her lone experience with art. In a craft class at primary section at Dadar’s Smt Kamala Bai School for the Blind, teachers would place a thread in the shape of an apple on paper. "They told us what colours to fill the shape with — red for the fruit, and green for the leaf. I had partial sight then, so, though I have lost my sight completely now, I know that sky blue is my favourite colour," says Bakle, a 27-year-old clerk who works at a nationalised bank in Worli.

(Clockwise from left) Kaveri Acharya, Siddhant Shah and Radha Bakle discuss the tactile reproduction of a tempura on paper work by Nandalal Bose. Pics/Atul Kamble