Anna Crichton

Updates on my exhibitions, events, collaborations and adventures.

“…but Ma’am, if we drew cartoons we’d get put in jail.”

It’s getting cooler, very comfortably – 26 degrees once the sun is up and a very sleepable 12 degrees at night. But it’s also the start...

There's a Rampur Hound in my bed

A most exotic creature, a now rare canine breed who once adorned Maharaja’s lives and palaces is right now sprawled on my unmade bed. The...

Guest is like God

I’ve been invited to lunch by Divanshi, the girl who swam across the Ganges and back. I think I’d prefer to be an ordinary mortal,...

‘I’m going into Publishing’

I’m going into publishing, as they say (well once said) – RAGPICKER & CRICHTON LTD: Purveyors of Fine Quality Indian Debris Books – books...

"She swam the Ganges and back" said a proud father

Sounds like bombs are exploding all over – it’s Diwali today, the equivalent of our Xmas where new clothes, sofas and white ware are...

Finding the Magicians…

TO NEEDLE THEIR MAGIC. Wake up, more like blown up, from the action of the furious overhead fan, though perhaps a wiser cooling system...

Varanasi (Benares)

DOWN TO EXPLORING… AND WORK, AND A FEW CURIOUS OBSERVATIONS Delhi was a trip inside a washing machine full of debris, precious lives...

A small cylinder of ash

My Dad died four months ago today. He’d just had a sip of tea and put his cup down on the hospital side table, and, so I’m told, gasped...

Life on and off the drawing board

A day in the life of Anna Crichton published in the International Design Magazine Threaded

Mr & Mrs Kahu and the Interloper

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