It was a cloudy afternoon, the breeze had dropped and the trees stood still, waiting for the rain to fall when I received the news that Nivedita Mehta was no more.
It was more than 30 years ago that I had first met Mehta at the Prince of Wales Museum (now the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya).
Her warm and friendly nature, her enthusiasm for her work as the curator of the Alpaiwala Museum and her knowledge of art and archeology drew me to her. Later, when I joined her as a committee member of the Museum Society, I got to know......