Press release
A report on an artists’ camp at Badkhal Lake, Haryana, set up by the Haryana Tourism Department with the Black Partridge Gallery, New Delhi, and opened on 14 March by Dr Karan Singh. Twelve artists took part: M. F. Husain, Paramjit Singh, Tyeb Mehta, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Eruch Hakim, Jai Zharotia, Nand Katyal, Nilima Sheikh, Rano Habib, Amitabha and Arputharani Sengupta, and Mala Marwah.
Forty works by the participants were shown in a temporary gallery at the resort, with the aim of taking art beyond the gallery and closer to the public.
Summary by The Jai Zharotia Foundation. The full text is held in the Foundation’s archive.