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Meet Tara, the sharp-eyed painter who turned a collection of bawdy parrot tales into glowing miniatures. She worked fast, crowding figures into jewel-box scenes where a scorned wife wields a pot lid like a weapon and a parrot in red shoes dishes out gossip. Her brush kept the stories lively without getting preachy—unusual for a 1560 Mughal workshop where artists often played it safe. See for yourself in the Tuti-nama’s Eighth Night scene, where the wife’s flying pot lid lands just above a very sorry husband.