None of the six newspapers I read every morning reported his death on May 15. As a Padma Shri awardee, he was deserving of and received a state funeral, but the art fraternity has remained largely immune to his passing.
The demise, at age 84, of the great Warli artist Jivya Soma Mashe, is saddening for being unmourned by us. A few who knew (or knew of) this tongue-tied, painfully shy artist, exchanged poignant messages and wondered at the lack of tributes at his passing. A senior artist in New Delhi recalled him being brought to his house in 1976 (the year he won a national award from the ...
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First Published: Fri, May 18 2018. 21:15 IST
