The body of India's most acclaimed painter Maqbool Fida Husain was on Friday laid to rest with full Muslim religious rites at Brookwood cemetery in Britain, honouring his last wishes.
Leading artists on Thursday welcomed the conferment of Qatar nationality on M F Husain, who has been living in self-imposed exile abroad for nearly four years following a spate of legal cases in the country over his controversial paintings of Hindu goddesses. "That's a great honour for him," painter Anjoli Ila Menon said, describing 95-year-old Husain as a "true Karma Yogi".
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The condition of Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu turned extremely critical on Saturday with all his vital organs affected and there was 'little hope of any good result.'
Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Thursday's night underwent a two-hour haemodialysis after further deterioration in his cardiac and renal functions and his condition was unstable and very critical, his personal physician A K Maity said.
"His general condition is marginally better than Saturday, but still critical and he is on partial ventilation," Executive Director of private AMRI hospital D N Agarwal told media persons. Agarwal, who gave a break up of the functioning of Basu's vital organs, said, "his central nervous system is better in comparison to Saturday and his cardio-vascular system is more or less stable."
The 95-year-old leader has been kept under full ventilation as a precautionary measure since Friday night, though he was put on partial ventilatory support in the daytime, Sushrut Bandopadhyay, who is on the medical board treating the leader at the private AMRI hospital in Kolkata, told media persons.
Friends and admirers of M F Husain were on Thursday at a loss of words at the demise of the painter, famously dubbed 'Picasso of India', and angry at the fact that he had to die in a foreign land. From contemporaries Kishen Khanna and Anjolie Ela Menon to younger artists like Jitish Kallat, a sense of shock, disbelief and grief prevailed among the art fraternity which mourned the death of the 95-year-old painter.
The condition of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, who was hospitalised with acute pneumonia last Friday, has not improved, doctors attending on him said on Thursday. The 95-year-old, who is currently on life support at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, remained in a critical condition. "His blood pressure is fluctuating," said one of the doctors. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee are scheduled to visit the ailing Marxist leader.
Renowned painter M F Husain, who has accepted Qatar nationality, feels that the attack against him by right wing outfits in India that forced him into exile for 12 years was targeted at art and self-expression rather than his Muslim identity.
Legendary artist M F Husain, who has been living in self-imposed exile for nearly four years following a spate of cases in India over his controversial paintings of Hindu goddesses, has accepted Qatar's offer to confer nationality on him.
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Embattled businessman Vijay Mallya on Tuesday lost a legal battle to hold on to his plush London home after a British court refused to grant him a stay of enforcement in a long-running dispute with Swiss bank UBS. The 18/19 Cornwall Terrace luxury apartment overlooking Regent's Park in London, described in court as an "extraordinarily valuable property worth many tens of millions of pounds", is currently being occupied by Mallya's 95-year-old mother Lalitha. Delivering his judgment virtually for the Chancery Division of the High Court, Deputy Master Matthew Marsh concluded there were no grounds for him to grant further time for the Mallya family to repay a 20.4-million loan to UBS - the claimant in the case.
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to direct the government to take steps to ensure return of self-exiled painter M F Husain, who has been residing in a Gulf country, to India and withdrawal of cases against him.
"There is no danger to him and we will not allow any threat to him," Chidambaram said noting that there were some cases against the painter in lower courts and lawyers can find a way to put an end to those.
He was a man of great integrity with a deep commitment to secular values, the prime minister said in his condolence message.
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Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's readiness to sit with the Tatas to find a solution to the Singur small car factory controversy.
Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's readiness to sit with the Tatas for finding a solution to the Singur small car factory controversy.
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