Benodebehari Mukherjee: Blind Indian painter’s forgotten scroll found after 100 years

Pervasive in the scroll is the artist’s “solitude, a sense of isolation subtly expressed and presented…as a state of his life, without self-pity or bitterness,” notes Siva Kumar, a leading art historian. The scroll, he says, “bears all signs of the artist’s genius that flowered in the coming years”.