कथादेश (Kathadesh) · August 1997
A long essay in the Hindi literary magazine Kathadesh, subtitled “the portrayal of humanity in all things, moving and unmoving”. It describes how the protagonist of his new paintings, the clown, now sees the world with a “third eye”, mentions an exhibition at The Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, and his series on Saumitra Mohan’s poem Luqman Ali shown at Art Heritage. Zharotia speaks of his love for Kabir, Raskhan and Rahim.
मुझे लगता था कबीर बहुत बड़ा मसखरा था…
I used to feel Kabir was a great clown, who called the world an illusion yet linked everything that happens in it to the spiritual and the mysterious.
Jai Zharotia, translated from Hindi
Summary by The Jai Zharotia Foundation. The full text is held in the Foundation’s archive.