Shadow-Lines: Zainul Abedin and the Afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943
by Sanjukta Sunderason Drawing Lines
In February 1970, Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) - the master artist of then East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) - painted an elaborate scroll to mark the occasion of the annual harvest festival that he had organized at the Dhaka Art Institute [1]. Abedin has been the Principal
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