Ashok Vajpeyi
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Manish Pushkale, an autodidact, is among the most promising young painters of India. His work has a unique language of abstraction that carries his personal imprints, and has attained maturity and significance through several shifts in experimentation and experience.
This bilingual (English and French) book captures Pushkale’s evolution as an artist through four short essays-each by a different author who talks of their unique perspective on ...
On 22nd February 2015, Syed Haider Raza turns 93. Widely acknowledged as a master of modern Indian art, for nearly six decades his work, vision and life have attracted critical attention from various points of view.
Raza returned to India, his home country, after spending 60 years in France and now lives in Delhi and continues to paint. The fact that he would be turning 93 years of age does not in any way diminish or slow down his zest both for living and ...
Raghu Rai, India's best known photographer, first short a series of memorable photo essays on the masters of Indian Classical music for India Today Magazine in the mid 1980s. Since then, he has never stopped shooting them--in concerts, in their homes, with their gurus and in special locations. Rai profiles only thirteen masters--the greatest of the great--nayak musicians who went much beyond their gharanas and broke new ground with their approach to music. ...
Poetry, in the SAARC region, occupies a lot of spaces, both private and public. From personal anguish to social protest, from longing to loss and love, from racial ancestral memories to rude ruptures, it covers a very wide and complicated range of experiences, emotions, feelings and insights, amalgamating history, politics and myth. Nurturing itself from the immense resources of tradition while responding deeply to the new challenges, it has been resorting to a ...
Artistic action is a strange fury. It has to be cultivated with trust – in fullness, like the patience of the mountains, in quiet waiting, all alone. That which is in front is evident but eyes alone are not able to perceive. From form to transform there are many unfamiliar possibilities where truth lies hidden. Without doubt, intelligence, reason and the divine energy residing on the top of restrained fury, the inner flame, alone are the best means of artistic ...
Syed Haider Raza is widely recognized as one of the undisputed masters of modern Indian art. Living in Pairs for more than half a century, he has combined in his art the French ‘le sens plastique’ and a deeply rooted Indian vision. From painting landscapes and cityscapes, he has moved to explore inscapes, the inner reality through the inner eyes. His art fuses sensuous colours with luminous spiritual grace. This is the most ...