Stamp designing is not a flourishing art in our country. Prakashi’s second stamp came almost 10 years after his first, so he kept his job. It wasn’t a career option,” he says. Still, he is perhaps the most prolific stamp artist, with a parallel career spanning over five decades, Pakrashi is an artist and, now, a writer. If the walls in house could talk, they’d tell you how his love for nature translates into generous oil canvases. But unlike other artists, his most prominent works are stamp-size. Why? He reasons, “The stamp is small. The space is full of limitations and compromises. But this is where there is clarity in his thought and art.” Read more