The Art Gallery On Princess Street by Jerry Pinto. Published in 2019 by Pratham Books, #621, 2nd Floor, 5th Main, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi, Bangalore 560043; website: www.prathambooks.org; email: info@prathambooks.org. Pp: 28. Price: Rs 65.
If someone were to ask me how I would describe Jerry Pinto (pictured), the author of this book, on the beginnings of the contemporary art world in Bombay, I would call him a millipede. In fact, a millipede with its thousand feet under a shiny red double-decker Bombay city bus running from one end of the Fort across to the Bandra seaface and all the areas......