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the boy’s teacher drew a dot on the blackboard and asked him to focus on it, in order to correct his lack of concentration

SH Raza: A Timeless Bindu
— Rizio Yohannan Raj
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In Mumbai, a young Raza contemplates his future. Courtesy La Terre catalogue |
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(A newspaper clipping of the Bombay Progressive Artist's Group, 1948. Front row, from left: F.N. Souza, K.H. Ara, H.A. Gade. Seated behind, from left: M.F. Husain, S.K. Bakre and S.H. Raza; Source - ArtIndia Magazine) |
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A young Raza (centre) is seen here with two other members of his Progressive Artists Group, F.N. Souza (far left) and Akbar Padamsee |
Finally, in 1980 he found his profound connect with that early vision; he saw that the spirit of Indian art was rooted in Indian ethnography. That was the point of SH Raza’s emergence into the artistic heartland of India as a striking bindu, a shining star.
It was a revelation that took Raza’s work as an artist into its master’s future, but we also see this point as his forever connect with his past, as well. One of the reasons SH Raza attributed to the origin of this work dates back to his elementary school days: the boy’s teacher drew a dot on the blackboard and asked him to focus on it, in order to correct his lack of concentration.
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SH Raza’s work into his inner self began with The Bindu |

Rizio Yohannan Raj is the Founder and Executive Director of LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives, a renowned cultural think-tank, She is the Creative Director of ILF Samanvay (IHC Indian Languages Festival).
Today SH Raza seems to have gone from our midst, but he remains: A complete life. A poornam which is not reduced even if a poornam is taken out of it. A timeless bindu, ever ready to grow into a full circle. A seed of thought and care, which is also an eternally potential open space for conversations and collaborations.
Time has made ILF Samanvay too a legatee of SH Raza’s ideal of experiencing fullness by sharing. And, we shall continue to follow the path illumined by your spot of light.
Raza Saab, salutes.
courtesy : http://www.ilfsamanvay.org
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