Maqbool Fida Husain passed away on June 9, in 2011 and left behind a legacy that is misunderstood by a few but loved and celebrated by many. Many years ago, he was visiting Husain Sankalana in Bangalore and sat chatting with journalists. Bare feet, a long brush in hand, eyes twinkling with laughter. Despite […]
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Defacing Heritage
The public works department (PWD) of Karnataka recently took on a 153-year-old part of the Hampi ruins with a bulldozer. It appears that all we have space for in our country today are roads, malls and housing projects. The architecture of a country in a way is its identity, its cultural capsule and when we deface, destroy or […]
A Quiet Legend
It is hard for me to write legibly about the quiet legend of Gokuldas Sadanand Shenoy. I did not know him personally and yet I feel I know him in a way that is instinctive, beyond the realms of academics and art history. While soaking and absorbing the book,Shenoy-Footprints (put together with painstaking passion and insightful […]
GS Shenoy: The World Within
GS Shenoy was a quiet, self-effacing force of Nature. It is only when he painted that you saw the swirling galaxies within, the many worlds within worlds. Interlocked pieces of thoughts. Thoughts with edges and texture and imprints of fading memories. Thoughts that are like scrunched up papers. Like rocks that want to melt. […]