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NAME OF PUBLICATION: INDIA TODAY
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: NEW DELHI
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 31 JAN 2000

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away from home

Sometimes, home is a place you have to go far away from to capture its essence - even half way round the world. Zarina Hashmi, the New York-based artist who is showing in India after a gap of nearly a decade and a half, has done just that in a sublime exhibition just opened at Gallery Espace, Delhi. On till

Hashi(below);and her works: the voice within

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Photographs by Hemant Chawla

February 2, this series of wood-cut prints and sculptures traces her journey from a childhood in Aligarh in simple geometric forms. Titled 'Home is a Foreign Place", the exhibition is about words and emotions recollected in tranquility. Nostalgia? A search for identity? "This is not nostalgia. I am trying to create order in my life. And this is how I have scripted my life." In black and white. And in lyrical silence.

- Madhu Jain