Asad Q. Ahmed.Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia. University of California Press, 2022.Available for Review. Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey (editors), David Shulman (translator).Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation...
A longer catalog essay by Syed Azizul Haque deals with Safiuddin Ahmed’s artistic career. Themes from everyday life in the village, portraits, sketches of nudes, semi-abstract works, still lifes and repeated scenes in which water plays a major role – Ahmed, who had empathy for ordinary pe...