In 1949 Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia was born in a weaver family which was regards as the "Dallit" - the lowest caste in his society.

His father was a postman in the village and eager to educate his children for a better future.

The society was so inhuman to the dalits they were instances of stone been throw to P.K Mahanandia for entering the village temple.

The village astrologer predicted PK would marry a girl from outer tribe, district, province and also outside of the country too.

PK studied in the state run college of art, Khallikote, and seeing his talent was given an scholarship by Odisha government to study in Delhi College of Arts.

He managed to reach Delhi but his scholarship money was yet to come, life became a struggle in the city as well.

Sleeping in the footpath to using of the public toilets has become part of the life.

He used the Delhi Connaught Place in the evening to sell paintings and portrait of visiting people under the banner “ten minutes, ten rupees”.

Earning was difficult with police didn’t allow the crowd to gather and P.K Mahanandia was constantly harassed for not leaving.

A girl named Lotta from Borås in Sweden asked PK to draw her.

She was a Taurus, played instruments and her family owned a forest, just as had been prophecied!

They met several times and at the third or fourth meeting asked P.K Mahanandia if Lotta wanted to marry him.

"What did you say?" Said Lotta, and then sat silent for a long time.

But even Lotta thought that everything was correct.

Fate was love that became a relationship, and they traveled together to the P.K Mahanandia’s village to get his father's blessing.

Lotta went home.

They exchanged letters in a year and a half before PK decided to travel west.

He bought a bike at Connaught Place for 60 rupees (then about as much in dollars).

He flew to Kabul and then cycled through Tehran and Istanbul to Vienna, where he sold some paintings to a gallery owner for a few schillings and a train ticket, and could continue to train for the last stretch to Gothenburg.

It is now 36 years since PK came to Sweden and married Lotta.They

have two children: Emily, who is 27, and Carl Siddhartha, who is 23. ^[0]