Young painters like Maqbool Fida Husain and Francis Newton Souza embraced avant-garde European movements like Cubism and Expressionism and advocated for a fresh take on Indian art as well.

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Importantly, this factoring capability can be correlated with business and financial goals and their associated risks, so CIOs can have a dialogue with CFOs, to whom they increasingly report in many organizations, says Fida.

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Along with a dozen other artists of the same generation, including Maqbool Fida Husain (see The Picasso of India), Mehta belongs to the Progressive Artists Group, founded in 1947, the year of India's independence, to create homegrown modern art.

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When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.

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