Times of India - 40 minutes ago
PTI | Jun 9, 2011, 11.28pm IST NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday said it is ready to extend all help for burial of MF Husain, who died in London, in India in case his family wants so. “Government has offered all facilitation to the family of MF Husain …
The story of Maqbool Fida Husain’s death made instant headlines on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Twitter, the micro-blogging site, had friends and well-wishers of Hussain tweeting over their loss. Actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted …
India Today - 47 minutes ago
Self-exiled artist MF Hussain, who died in London on Thursday, had drawn a cartoon extending support to Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign. Husain said that ‘Anna is spearheading another revolution’. Supporting Hazare’s massive anti-corruption …
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While Bollywood singer Shweta Pandit wrote about her meeting with MF Husain, “An artist lives on forever. I have a book, Timeless Madhubala signed by him (Hussain), that’s been my only chance meeting.”
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Hindustan Times - 2 hours ago
Maqbool Fida Husain died in London on Thursday. He was 95. Nice, tame headline, this. But who was he really? Was he the artist who courted controversy because he had painted Hindu deities in the nude in the 1970s and was hounded out of his home, …
Telegraph.co.uk - 53 minutes ago
MF Husain , who died in London yesterday aged 95, was a former billboard artist who rose to become India’s most famous painter before going into self-imposed exile after receiving death threats from religious hardliners for his nude images of Hindu …
Times of India - 3 hours ago
PTI | Jun 9, 2011, 08.37pm IST LONDON: MF Husain might have died Qatari citizen, but the legendary artist had maintained in one of his last interviews that he was neither on self-exile nor had he lost faith in India’s democratic system. …
Hindustan Times - 2 hours ago
In achieving aesthetic and commercial success, MF Husain set new benchmarks for Indian artists. In the small hours of Thursday, the celebrated artist Maqbool Fida Husain breathed his last in a London hospital. He died far away from India, …
Hindu Business Line - 48 minutes ago
Art-loving CEOs across the country, who bought MF Husain’s paintings, when he was a fairly unknown artist, have seen their investments parlay into a small fortune ever since. Business barons have always been patrons of art. But if there is one artist …
Assam Tribune - 4 minutes ago
LONDON, June 9 – Maqbool Fida Husain, who rose from a Bollywood billboard artist to India’s most celebrated painter worldwide, died here today, away from home on a self-imposed exile, reports PTI. Husain, who earned both fame and wrath for his …