The Brahmacharis as the most difficult thing she had ever done.... don't you think I have learnt something from Indian painting?... I don't know whether it is a passing phase or a durable change in my outlook but I see in a more detached manner, more ironically than I have ever done.

In a latter to Karl Khandalavala in 1937 after she had done three paintings on south Indian villagers - The Bride's Toilet, The Brahmacharis, and South Indian Villagers going to Market. - Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil