artist Krishen Khanna

Krishen Khanna | Marching to his own beat

[ad_1] The first time we met was at a gathering of luminaries at a retreat in Goa intent on saving “Democracy in India”. We did such things in those distant days of the 70s. Goa was still an unexplored destination. There were dancers, poets, historians, political activists, the odd freedom fighter, one of each. Manohar […]

100 years of Krishen Khanna

[ad_1] When I first met Krishen Khanna in early 2001, the clean-shaven gentleman in a sharp waistcoat hardly looked like an artist. I was used to most in the community outfitted in kurta-jholas and, in the case of Khanna’s contemporary M.F. Husain, walking barefoot, with his beard and unruly white hair in tousled glory. In contrast, Khanna […]