Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

89 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK “ Most of his work today is graphically infused with a sensuous celebration of the love of man for man… For me, what is striking about this brave painter is his quiet but certain insistence upon the lyrical naturalness of what gives meaning to his life in a society which has traditionally only been able to accommodate sexual diversity through rejection or ridicule… (yet) in recent years his work has been filled with images of love and tenderness in which both he and his older partner prominently figure — not for him the anguish and resentment of rejection from the bosom of society.” (T.Richard Blurton, rpt. in Bhupen Khakhar: Kapil Jariwala Gallery ExC. 1995 ) . c d