[ad_1] An Australian newspaper recently ran a headline that read: ‘Singh beats Smith’. It was about business ownership in Sydney, but it captured the steady shift in how the desi diaspora, now estimated at over 35 million people spread across more than 200 countries, has become a force. Last month, members from 25 countries gathered […]
[ad_1] Weeks before she set a new record for Indian art by buying a lost M.F. Husain painting called Gram Yatra in a Christie’s sale for ₹119 crore, Kiran Nadar was sitting in the conference room of her museum’s Saket outpost, musing about how her art collecting style had grown. “When I’m collecting an artist, I try […]
[ad_1] ‘Gram Yatra’, the 1954 paintingthat left India the same year, remained largely unseen since its acquisition by the Ukrainian-born Norway-based doctor Leon Elias Volodarsky, who was in Delhi to establish a thoracic surgery training centre for the WHO. Photo: Special Arrangement Legendary painter MF Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), billed as one of his most […]
