An art exhibition in Karachi is challenging crowds to take a fresh look at the roots of India-Pakistan conflict by focusing on the subcontinent’s partition. The exhibition by the London-based arts organisation Green Cardamom has already shown in Dubai, and will move to London after Karachi.
A review of the Dubai exhibition in The National:
One of the artists, Bengali Naeem Mohaiemen, was at the opening overseeing his work. He has two pieces in the exhibition, both based on the Bengali Muslim poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. A controversial figure, Nazrul joined the Indian army in 1917 when he was 18, only to leave three years later and start work for a literary society in Calcutta, where he mixed with writers and embarked on a career as a poet, with nationalism often a theme. He was against the idea of partition, vocalising his unhappiness about it through poetry and songs, until he was struck down with Pick’s Disease in 1941. This incurable disease caused loss of memory and rendered him mute, the state in which he lived until he died in 1976. More:
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