Vijay Shinde belongs to Sholapur in the state of Maharashtra. There was no encouragement to take up painting as a career then. However, he was interested in painting right from his childhood. Of course, the idea of choosing painting as a full-time vocation was not on his mind then. It was only when he came to Pune to join Abhinav College of Art that his formal education in art actually began. He later came to Mumbai, and studied Fine Arts at Sir J. J. S ...