Page 4 - S H Raza Retrospective Catalogue July 2020

Riots in India upset him deeply and he wrote a poem which he reproduced on his canvas
h dukh
Kitne samay se
n
n
Dharthi main
Gir chuke hai
arere hai
Kitne aansu
Dherya se
Bina jaane
Atyachaar
Kitne suk
Desh ke
Aapke
Jaane
Mere
Sah
S H Raza’s palette : Dev kaha hain ‘Vickram ko snehh se’ Kyun nahi aate? He often spoke on his love and bond with India. T o him India was his karmabhumi, he felt charged with new thoughts when he was here. I remember once I asked him “Raza sahib aap kitne bindu banaye hain?” In an awful felt and impertinence my at shocked was I koye” na dusra gopal girdhar toh “more replied he instant at having asked him this question and all the way back from Paris to London I couldn't speak to myself. religious
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RANGOLI OF I don't remember when Mr. Raza and I became friends. It was a Guru-Shishya relationship; we would have long conversations on art and the philosophy of life. T o him his art was his offering to the gods, to humanity and to anyone who would ever get a chance to see his work. I once used the term the rangoli of S.H. Raza, had I that humbled offering to the gods and to every guest that enters the home, this he said was the essence of his work. Raza the translated and from seed the beginning, array larg

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