Why did Amrita Sher Gil painted the way way she did? There had been strange alienation in the characters she painted. On the surface, they look like plain depiction of women figures but as we look deeper, layers of mystery show up. During such a brief spell of just twenty eight years, Amrita Sher Gil presented the world an oeuvre incomparable to many artists until this day. What was the driving force behind her strange depictions?