This is one of two tailored versions of Aamer Hussein’s ‘The Colour of a Loved Person’s Eyes’. This version of the story includes altered details to particular situations of the characters. This version was published in the influential literary journal, ‘Critical Quarterly’, in 1990. The journal was launched in 1958 to promote contemporary poetry and stories, reviews and discussion articles until its closure in 1990. ‘Critical Quarterly’ helped to establish poets such as Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and A.S. Byatt. In the story, the narrator learns the key to the relationship between his idealistic dashing aristocratic father and his proud literary and widowed mother in pre-partition India, by interpreting an Indian miniature painting by her.