Indian bureaucracy, with notable exceptions, has very much been a part of a widespread cultural illiteracy. In the sad loss of cultural memory, we seem to be forgetting that Indians wrote one of the first-ever books on sexology, ‘Kamasutra’
Raza’s art flowed ceaselessly between many dualities: India and France, beauty and fear, the sensuous and the spiritual, modernity and memory, exile and home. His modernity was rooted in memory and nature
Raza was full of love and lure of the world, especially nature but he also enacted his gratitude to the world and civilisation he belonged to. He was a grateful heir to the plurality, richness and depth of Indian civilisation.
