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Husain accepts Qatari nationality offer: Son |
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February 26th, 2010 |
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Dubai: Legendary artist M F Husain, who has been living in self-imposed exile for nearly four years following a spate of cases in India over his controversial paintings of Hindu goddesses, has accepted Qatar's offer to confer nationality on him.
The 95-year-old painter has accepted the offer and it is under process, Husain's son Owais Husain told PTI here today.
He said the Qatari nationality was not something he asked for, but it is the truth now. "I respect his individual decision because somewhere as a son you have witnessed a range of emotions he is going through."
He also said that his father was in Doha currently and would return to Dubai next month. "He (Husain) got a lot of calls, some provocative ones... but he didn't succumb to it and that goes to show his resilience at the age of 95.
"After all he is older than independent India," Owais said, noting that Husain was born in "one of the most holy places (Pandharpur -- a pilgrimage site) of Maharashtra."
However, he said one cannot take away the Indianness that defined his father. "You can take a man out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the man."
Owais, who is also working on a documentary on the life of Husain, said his father has been extremely prolific as a painter in the past few years. "Since he (Husain) is not a man of words but a man of images, he has poured it all out on the canvas. He has painted the Ramayana, he has painted on India and a whole lot of series in the past few years he has been away from India.
"He has travelled to a lot of places but he has a thing about painting a series of 100 paintings on the history of India. He is working like never before and he just wants to work," Owais said.
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