Bringing art and science together

Neera Joshi Pradhan is perhaps Nepal’s only botanical illustrator capturing the character, details, aesthetics and scientific accuracy of flora. Her journey has been solitary but priceless.

When she was a young school-going girl, one afternoon, when she had returned home after giving her science exam, Neera Joshi Pradhan was asked by her father what questions were there in the exam to check how she did. One of the questions she recalls was to write the uses of flowers. Her father frowned and asked, “So, what did you write?”