jaipur swapan sett 73 has been travelling with his violin and sketches for about eight years now in 2002 his wife was diagnosed with cancer in the uterus treatment was expensive and sett painter sculptor and violinist based in kolkata took to using all his talents to gather the resources needed to treat his ailing wife a local newspaper article brought him more and more opportunities for performances and the elderly man now travels oftenbut it was not as if i had not travelled before you know he told toi at a recent meeting at the jawahar kala kendra in the state capital i have played even for the erstwhile royals i was pleased to meet gayatri devi you know that she belonged to the royal family of cooch behar in west bengal i was pleased to speak with her in bengalisett had performed as a young man too before erstwhile royals and state governors but after his wifes ailment performance became a means of funding too sett was travelling with his violin to jaipur and stood up at the jkk to offer this reporter a private performance in raag purvi he said this is the appropriate raga for dusk he seemed lost as he played the violin hardly even aware that he was in full public view in the coffee house at the jkk as he drew to a close there was loud applausethe mans talents are not limited to music on his many travels he has visited a host of museums and he has sketched interesting sculptures from these museums he offered this reporter a pick of one of his sketches this ganapati statue is in the museum in nepal the lord is in the nataraj pose he said of the sketch that this reporter choseasked about the treatment of his wife he said she was first diagnosed over 15 years ago the radiation has sideeffects and she has taken ill quite badly twice after that first diagnosis but if you look at her now you will not know how sick she has been she does not like being mentioned in the media as a patient so i dont talk of it much anymoreshe was diagnosed in 2002 and has had some complications since but now lives a normal life