Fida Husain

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of one of India's most renowned and multifaceted artists, Maqbool Fida Husain, who passed away on June 9th, 2011, at the age of 95.

A 109-year-old Indian man is among the two centenarians from the country in Saudi Arabia, who will perform Haj this year.

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

M F Husain's demise has spread gloom over the artist community, however, some feel it's not the time for grief alone. Chennai-based painter and sculptor Shihan Hussaini believes the country owes the late artist an apology and has decided to pay homage to him in his own special way. "We owe him an apology. No efforts were made to bring him back to t...

Maqbool Fida Husain, an artist whose modernist reinterpretations of mythic and religious subjects made him India's most famous painter and, in recent years, a target of right-wing Hindu groups, died on Thursday in London. He was 95. Mr Husain, who developed his sweeping brushstrokes and bright palette when he painted movie billboards in Mumbai, app...

Ebullient and eccentric at the same time, barefoot painter Maqbool Fida Husain took Indian art to the global stage with his cubist-inspired modern art but was riled in controversy with his paintings on Hindu deities.Synonymous with contemporary Indian art, the painter was described as the 'Pablo Picasso' of India by Forbes magazine.Born on Septembe...

Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India's best-known artists, died from complications caused by lung congestion at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London at 2:30 am local time on Thursday. He was 96. (In Pics: Husain, 'India's Picasso')  Mr Husain had been in indifferent health for over a month, reported PTI quoting family sources.Prime Minister ...

Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India's best-known artists, died of a heart attack at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London at 2:30 am local time on Thursday. He was 96. (In Pics: Husain, 'India's Picasso')  Mr Husain had been in indifferent health for over a month, reported PTI quoting family sources.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Mr Husain...

In his first television interview since he decided to become a citizen of Qatar, Maqbool Fida Husain talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt about his Indian-ness and his art.

In his first television interview since he decided to become a citizen of Qatar, Maqbool Fida Husain talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt about his Indian-ness and his art.

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of one of India's most renowned and multifaceted artists, Maqbool Fida Husain, who passed away on June 9th, 2011, at the age of 95.

A 109-year-old Indian man is among the two centenarians from the country in Saudi Arabia, who will perform Haj this year.

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

M F Husain's demise has spread gloom over the artist community, however, some feel it's not the time for grief alone. Chennai-based painter and sculptor Shihan Hussaini believes the country owes the late artist an apology and has decided to pay homage to him in his own special way. "We owe him an apology. No efforts were made to bring him back to t...

Maqbool Fida Husain, an artist whose modernist reinterpretations of mythic and religious subjects made him India's most famous painter and, in recent years, a target of right-wing Hindu groups, died on Thursday in London. He was 95. Mr Husain, who developed his sweeping brushstrokes and bright palette when he painted movie billboards in Mumbai, app...

Ebullient and eccentric at the same time, barefoot painter Maqbool Fida Husain took Indian art to the global stage with his cubist-inspired modern art but was riled in controversy with his paintings on Hindu deities.Synonymous with contemporary Indian art, the painter was described as the 'Pablo Picasso' of India by Forbes magazine.Born on Septembe...

Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India's best-known artists, died from complications caused by lung congestion at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London at 2:30 am local time on Thursday. He was 96. (In Pics: Husain, 'India's Picasso')  Mr Husain had been in indifferent health for over a month, reported PTI quoting family sources.Prime Minister ...

Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India's best-known artists, died of a heart attack at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London at 2:30 am local time on Thursday. He was 96. (In Pics: Husain, 'India's Picasso')  Mr Husain had been in indifferent health for over a month, reported PTI quoting family sources.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Mr Husain...

In his first television interview since he decided to become a citizen of Qatar, Maqbool Fida Husain talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt about his Indian-ness and his art.

In his first television interview since he decided to become a citizen of Qatar, Maqbool Fida Husain talks to NDTV's Barkha Dutt about his Indian-ness and his art.