India, Dec. 14 -- What is art? It's a simple question for women who have not just grown up with great art, but also nurtured it. Turns out, it isn't so, perhaps for the very same reasons.

It was the only question art gallerists and mother, daughter Shireen Gandhy, 61, and Atyaan Jungawala, 31, paused before answering. They attempted with a few incomplete sentences and even tried to work together to come up with an answer. It can be hard to define something so intrinsic to one's life, like asking a little child to write about her mother.

That was why Atyaan, the granddaughter of Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy, founders of the 61-year-old art gallery Chemould Prescott Road (earlier Chemould), thought of art as "whatever" while growing up. "I o...