Artist, writer and lifelong champion of India’s rural and tribal cultures, Haku Shah passed away on 21 March at the age of 84
Primarily a painter who was trained at the M.S.U. in Baroda, Shah was keenly interested in promoting rural and tribal cultures of India. This interest made him a key authority on the subject of Indian rural and tribal arts. He wrote extensively about art, mostly in Gujarati but sometimes in English. In 2009, a collection of his writings was brought out in a Hindi translation, entitled Manush.
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