sentences:  Alyque and his brothers (but not his sisters) were the first to attend school and learn English there; the parents later picked up a smattering of the language from their sons.Early in life, he started copying images from "The Illustrated Weekly of India" magazine in his father's accounts books at their store on Chakla Street, in South Mumbai.He studied at St. Xavier's High School, Fort, and it was here that met his first mentor, his teacher Shirsat, a watercolourist.