Art in Independent India

Days of jubilation ought to be also days of reflection. In the minds of many men the future is more important than the past. It is in the future that their hopes and fears, their ambitions and dreams find realisation and fulfilment. The past serves them as measure by which they gauge production and

Letter to Krishen Khanna

31^st August 1980

. . . Two days ago I finished the ms for the book and catalogue I am doing for the V&A. That’s why I have not written earlier, just couldn’t stop the work in its last run. It’s just like you in your work, when you are at it and in it nobody and nothing can stop you.