I got to know AliAdil Khan quite by accident. He was the curator of Picture House: The Art of
Bollywood – an exhibition along with Asma Arshad Mahmood last year.
Adil runs the SouthAsian Gallery of Art in Oakville.
Recently, over a bowl
of Aash Reshteh soup at a Persian restaurant in downtown Toronto, we discussed
many things of mutual interest - from Mahatma Gandhi to MF Husain, and Hindi movie posters to contemporary
art in the subcontinent and rising religious fundamentalism.
Last week, he
organised An evening of live painting
with music and poetry – one of the finest cultural events I've ever attended
in Canada.
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| Anwar Khurshid (playing the sitar) and Shahid Rassam (painting) Both interpreted in their own media a poem on environment by Afsfaq Hussain |
It was an exquisite jugalbandi of sitar by Anwar Khurshid and painting by Shahid Rassam.
It revived memories
of M. F. Hussain's similar experiment with Ustad Zakir Husain and Ustad Allah
Rakah (tabla), and Ustad Sultan Khan (saarangi) during a cultural festival on
Calicut Beach in December 1994.
Congratulations Adil!
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