Manohar Devadoss
Manohar Devadoss, affectionately known as ‘Mano’ is a scientist-writer-artist, an innovator with a restless intelligence and vivid imagination. He grew up in the Madurai of the 1940s, a schoolboy at large, roaming the city under the great temple towers of Madurai. His fourth book, Multiple Facets of My Madurai is a portfolio that presents the city of Madurai through a collection of intricately detailed pen-and-ink drawings with accompanying text. This book was written and illustrated with the help of his wife Mahema. The exquisite pen-and-ink drawings in this book are flawless, sharp-edged, heart-breaking reproductions of snapshots from his life drawn between 1983 and 2005. Manohar and Mahema’s life is a poem in courage, grace, perseverance and loving details. In their thirties, they met with a car accident that changed everything. Mahema was badly hurt.The accident left her paralyzed below the shoulders- for life. Around the time of the accidentManohar's vision began to fail. He was diagnosed with Retinitis pigmentosa- a degenerative eye condition for which there is no known cure. Today he is completely blind. This couple through their life shared- not their sadness, but their strength. When you embrace life, you come alive to the beauty of the present. That's what these two have done.
