THRISSUR: It was Jasna’s grandmother Cheriya Pathu, who called her ‘Kanna’ with affection. Her father Majeed and mother Sofia too called her Kanna when she was a child. Now Jasna is a housewife. In this time, she drew about 900 paintings of Krishna with butter in hands. With 101 paintings, Jasna will go to Guruvayoor. When the Devaswom authorities receive these paintings, it will be a dream come true for this thirty-year-old woman.

A native of Koilandy, Jasna had seen the pictures of baby Krishna in her friends’ houses. When she was 24 years old, she saw the picture of Krishna on a piece of paper that was used to cover something from a shop. Seeing that she decided to draw Krishna holding butter. Without knowing how to draw, she drew a good picture. That was the beginning.

She then drew Guruvayoor Appan, Dhanalekshmi, Ganapathy, party symbols, Masha Allah, etc. But these did not get the perfection of painting Krishna. With that she got a desire to dedicate her paintings of Krishna holding butter to the Guruvayoor temple. Though, she has dedicated one picture on every occasion, it is for the first time that she is donating 101 pictures at a single time. The drawings are at a height of a person and was drawn in four months, costing her Rs.4 lakhs.

The drawings are of different heights, and painted with fabric painting on acrylic. All the paintings are framed. Sometimes she takes four days even to draw a small picture of Krishna.

Though her husband encouraged her to draw the pictures, her relatives and community members were opposed to it. However, some people from her community also helped her with money to make her dream come true. Some people, who are related to the madrasa, were reluctant to admit her children to the madrasa. The children and studying in government school in sixth and fourth standards. Jasna’s husband Salim is in Dubai.