a small tidy bedroom in a modest working-middle-class Indian city apartment, warm and lived-in and cared for. A simple wooden desk stands against the right-hand wall directly beneath a window with plain cotton curtains; a single bed with a folded quilt sits against the left wall; a door at the back wall stands slightly ajar. A worn woven rug in cream, faded red and muted ochre lies in the centre of the floor. The walls are warm cream, bare except for one child's crayon drawing of a tree pinned up. Fading golden evening light comes through the window. Warm earth browns, creams and soft gold throughout, with no cool or blue tones anywhere