In an encyclopedia of Maharashtra's visual arts, vivid portraits that help breach linguistic lines
Detail from MF Husain's Portrait of Ibn Zainab (1979). | cea + (CC BY 2.0) In our smartphone-saturated times, with every scrap of information you might want to know seemingly already at your fingertips, what good reasons could possibly exist to publish any whacking great 960-page doorstopper that weighs full three kilos? It turns out there are many. And all are embodied in the distinctive and rather wonderful English translation of Originally published in Marathi in 2013 as Drishyakala Khand by Hindusthan Prakashan Sanstha, this meticulously compiled encyclopedia is edite...
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