[KABAARY]

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This is going far off topic...

Dear Hyderabadi Garo, as Nagesh Kukonoor said in Hyderabad Blues : "Dil pe mat le yaar, haath me le"

Getting back on topic...a sad event :
Hussain vandalised
Btw, has anyone of you seen the painting which originally created the controversy resulting in him fleeing from India ?

[Hyderabadi]

KABAARY, on Aug 25 2008, 04:06 PM, said:

Btw, has anyone of you seen the painting which originally created the controversy resulting in him fleeing from India ?

Yes.

BTW, is he still running his Cinema Ghar in Hyderabad?

[KABAARY]

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is he still running his Cinema Ghar in Hyderabad

Don't know but difficult to imagine that he is running it personally as he has not entered the country for many a year.

Btw, I was just doing a search on him and came across a site which had an extremely virulent and polluted interpretation of his works by so called upholders of Hinduism. It really upset me no end.

Mods : Can I post the link to that site here or do you think that it is avoidable ?

[dzibead]

There's a group of contemporary painters in Rajasthan that do very realistic "natural history" type paintings - they look very conventional and not like what springs to mind when one says "contemporary art" - i.e., it's not abstract or "expresionist" in any way, but they're wonderful.  A friend of mind has been collecting paintings by Jaggu Prasad, who is probably the best-known of the group.  Here are some of his works:     http://www.artnet.co...ggu-prasad.html

    And here's an article about a group exibition several years ago:    http://query.nytimes...751C0A9659C8B63

[Somerset]

Indian art is the thing in the NYTimes this week. Today its about collecting in India: http://www.nytimes.c.../26collect.html

[jyotirmoy]

Another great painter Benodebehari Mukherjee... Ray made a film on him "The Inner Eye" Benodebihari babu completed the frescos at Shantiniketan when he was practically blind.

More here:
http://en.wikipedia....ehari_Mukherjee

www.satyajitray.org/films/innereye.htm

[KABAARY]

He was a student of Nandalal Bose. So was Satyajit Ray...