Colours and words come together creatively as celebration of life in Moments of Being, where delicate boundaries between poetry and painting melt into oblivion and the pure joy of creative expression lingers through the leaves of the book. The artist, Subhash Malik, is a cultural anthropologist who has been painting over many decades representing myriad facets of life, from nature to human forms in different mediums. The poet, Sukrita, who has been involved in the study of literature, has been writing poetry for several decades. Her poems resonate well with the paintings in this book The book has been edited by Anjali Capila, writer and researcher on Himalayan communities..