Right-wing organisation opposes tribute to Husain at IFFI

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 12:47

A Hindu right-wing organization in Goa has taken objection to a film section at IFFI, which pays tributes to painter MF Husain.

Family, friends recall Husain, colossus of Indian art

Last Updated: Sunday, September 18, 2011, 16:39

Family, friends and associates relived memories of India`s most popular face in contemporary and new media art MF Husain.

Competitions, calendar release on Husain`s birth anniversary

Last Updated: Friday, September 16, 2011, 18:52

The day will be marked by a sketching and painting competition at the MF Husain Gallery, Jamia Millia Islamia, and the release of a calendar.

Owais to play MF Husain in a film

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 20:12

Owais claims that Husain didn’t approve of his going ahead with his documentary.

In exile, Husain wanted to destroy his paintings: Son

Last Updated: Monday, July 4, 2011, 20:18

Forced to live away from India, MF Husain at one time wanted to destroy all his paintings, says his son Owais Husain.

For MF Husain, Shahnaz Husain was empress Noor Jahan

Last Updated: Monday, July 4, 2011, 13:27

Shahnaz Husain was Mughal empress Noor Jahan to celebrated artist and distant cousin Maqbool Fida Husain.

Agra businessman to immortalise Husain in museum

Last Updated: Monday, June 13, 2011, 18:55

The Taj city will host a museum of Maqbool Fida Husain`s art works and mementoes related to him, thanks to a Mumbai-based business tycoon.

Reema Nath made Husain act in `Mohabbat`

Last Updated: Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:46

Writer-director Reema Rakesh Nath is perhaps the only one to have directed MF Husain in a film. Not only that, Husain also painted the poster for her father`s 1947 moive `Romeo and Juliet`.

Tributes paid to MF Husain in London

Last Updated: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 14:50

At the outset, a portrait of Husain was garlanded and a big candle was lit in memory of the departed soul.

Husain was a true lover of India: Shabana

Last Updated: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 20:20

MF Husain loved India very much and should not have been `forced out` of the country, says Shabana Azmi remembering the celebrated painter who died in London Thursday.

Husain loved shoes, says close friend Laxma Gaud

Last Updated: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 11:11

A goatherd tending to his goats outside a tin hut on the green Himalayan slopes, with the silhouette of a young woman in the background.

Noted artist MF Husain laid to rest

Last Updated: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 09:43

Renowned artist Maqbool Fida Husain was laid to rest at the Brooklyn cemetery, Woking in London on Friday despite an offer from the Indian government to bring his body back to India.