Beautiful and brilliant Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms scandalizing the staid society of her times with her love affairs and unconventional ways. In this fascinating biography art historian Yashodhara Dalmia paints a compelling portrait of the artist who when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty eight left behind a body of work that establishes her as one of the foremost artists of the century and an eloquent symbol of the fusion between the East and the West.