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awful to left a was to painting
thoughts when he was here. I remember once I asked him “Raza sahib aap kitne bindu banaye hain?” In an
He often spoke on his love and bond with India. T o him India was his karmabhumi, he felt charged with new
felt have it how
and I yet Paris, know small a
impertinence would what in didn't and me gave

Riots in India upset him deeply and he wrote a poem which he reproduced on his canvas

my existence man he
at otherwise his of broken leaving,
shocked etre d’ a was was It was a work that he had made for Janine.

was desires raison he I as
I my Paris and
koye” all and troubled relationship. During one of his India trips he was informed that she was in the ICU and cancer had taken over her body. I changed his flight and drove him to the airport we parted knowing what was in store. in him 3

na at having asked him this question and all the way back from Paris to London I couldn't speak to myself. fulfill support him with
dusra not see day

gopal me “let biggest to went a spent

girdhar said his was I away. I lost,

toh once Janine passed
“more Raza wife completely saying “Janine would have liked you to have this”

n h dukh n replied art Raza’s she later
Kitne aansu Aapke Mere Desh ke Gir chuke hai Dharthi main Kitne suk Atyachaar Dherya se Kitne samay se arere hai Sah Jaane Bina jaane Dev kaha hain Kyun nahi aate? he instant about Chatting explore”. days few A himself, console Vickram Sethi Director, The Arts Trust

S H Raza’s palette : ‘Vickram ko snehh se’ religious a is T o canvas. the an was It end. He decipher. to which meaning

Inscribed by the artist which rangoli to onto bindu a of the and forth humanity for a for searching

S H RAZA art his compared thought abstract sprang life which puzzles jigsaw of and soul your

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

THE was he said conceptualised all of left and painting a

and who source the infinite mantra, the soul of human existence. skills viewing a journey that the viewer had to undertake himself.

pleased was painterly that

really philosopher bindu great explained

was a the had
he was him Raza once