Vivan Sundaram's Aunt And Muse Amrita Sher-Gil Was Also His Social Laboratory

Sundaram successfully captured this narcissism, which appears to have been gifted to her by her father. David Knox and Caroline Schacht acknowledge high self esteem as an important psychological condition for the development of love and sex relationship. Family is often seen as the first set-up where an individual imbibes sexual values like absolutism or relativism. Sundaram’s Amrita Sher-Gil is an icon who is beyond moral and social censure. Despite his seemingly perfect ease with Sher-Gil bohemian lifestyle, one can discern a slight discomfort when it comes to these issues as he passes over them silently.