"studio" is dedicated to smita patil and opens with a poem dedicated to patil, who was a childhood friend of awchat's. awchat talks about the book: ""studio" does not explicitly deal with my art, but the undercurrent of art is forever present. here, in my own way, i have expressed my idea about art among other things. i have tried to explore the need for an artist to step out of the immediate urban microcosm, and into the rural india."