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Krishen Khanna
Conversation at a Dhaba

- - A deeply humanist painter, Khanna frequently focused on the subaltern in his work. From rural migrants sleeping on the bed of a truck and exhausted musicians returning home at the end of the day, to huddled groups of refugees and labourers catching a short break at roadside tea stalls, the artist magnified and celebrated the unnoticed populations of Nizamuddin and Bhogal, where he lived and worked, on his canvases. “Krishen’s phase of involvement

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