Like every Vyas before him, Anant Pai shone the copper so a new generation could see itself reflected in mythology
Myths are so intimately bound to the culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
(This story appears in the 25 March, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)