Shoe painting
While most of her waking hours are consumed by textbooks and projects, Shubha’s leisure hours are more colourful — painting exotic pictures and portraits on plain canvas shoes. So, a pair of black converse shoes comes alive with a receding elephant, Edward Scissorhands, and characters from her favourite movies — Pirates of the Caribbean, the Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings. So popular are her asymmetrically paired shoes that there is now a waiting list of over a dozen friends, whose new ‘keds’ await transformation.