Daril Atkins sculpts parts of the human body. The life of this 77-year-old sculptor-turned-anaplastologist is marked by giving helping hands to people, literally. “I am a trained sculptor,” he told me at his lab, DA Anaplastology India LLP, in Bengaluru. “As an anaplastologist, I am expected to create a masterpiece that nobody would be able to detect.”
When I entered his lab, Atkins was gazing intently at an object in his hand, with his back toward me. “Give me a minute,” he told me. Looking around, I saw parts of an eye, a nose, fingers and toes of various textures, skin tone and size—which were not merely the para-phernalia of an anaplastologist but also pieces of art, made by an artist. In a minute’s time, a sagely face greeted me.…
