The Vision of the Master
(WorldNews Health)

Around a month after Santiniketan announced that it will honour its eminent alumni Benode Behari Mukherjee with a gallery dedicated to the work of the visually challenged modernist master, an exhibition in Delhi traces his oeuvre, from the time Mukherjee completed his studies at Kala Bhavan. `He registered as its second student in 1919, when the institution was established,` says art historian R Siva Kumar, who has curated the exhibition titled `Between Sight and Insight: Glimpses of Benode Behari Mukherjee`. Born into a highly literate family, a childhood illness had left him blind in one eye and myopic in the other. Unable to pursue formal education, Santiniketan is where Mukherjee gave...