MEDITATION In Colour Dhanavanti Dedicated to The Mother Dhanavanti joined the ashram of Sri Aurobindo as a child in 1943, when the Mother opened the school of the ashram. She has been living there since then. She took to drawing and painting in 1956. Nature was a constant source of joy and inspiration - flowers, land­scapes, birds, animals all had their charm. But what she loved most is the human being - the human body so full of grace and strength, the human face with its ever changing expressions. Portraits were her favourites and sketching from life - to catch in a few lines the various moods and modes of life, the movement and the