Did you find more time to work in Santiniketan?

Well, after I laid off my duties as the Dean of the Faculty, I was finding more time here too, the whole position, but still when there was a problem I had to sort out. There people wanted me to be around, but then after I went to Santiniketan it was much easier, and then really, soon after I went to Santiniketan, of course on the basis of whatever work I had done so far, I was given what they call the Kalidas Samman Award. That was in 1981 I think, the first award. Then after that came the India Festival and when the Tate Gallery wanted to show, and I think Howard Hodgkins selected my paintings along with those of others, so all those things. Some of them were started here, some of them were done in the early years there, then they went there. After that, I found that it was easy to work there, and I didn’t have any administrative responsibilities. I had just to be around, that’s the whole thing. So, ’80 onwards, well, I had a lot of freedom to work and be busy the whole day on something or the other.