In 1966, a man from a Rajasthani family settled in Mysore started a small handicrafts manufacturing unit. Four years later, he opened a store opposite Mysore Zoo. That store became Ramsons — and what followed was 56 years of one family's deep, unhurried commitment to preserving Karnataka's living art and craft heritage.

The art books at Ramsons are not souvenirs — they are serious documentation of Mysore's painting tradition, decades in the making.