K S Kulkarni: A Separate Reality

In 1953, I came across the studio of K.S. Kulkarni while looking for an artist to write captions on a photograph. Meeting Kulkarni turned out to be a fateful event for me. He was the first modern artist I met. He saw, a new world of art— where open minded creative people sacrificed commercial interest to express their vision and ideas breaking away from traditional India. I learnt, however, that most of these artists, whose art was their passion and life, were facing hardship due to the lack of patronage of art in India. Where in the West private art…