where the writers are The Face          THE FACE        There
was a huge canvas of a baby being pulled in to a vortex of grief
of a crazed woman. The media, intelligentsia and the hoi polloi
were all struck alike by an appalling sense of gloom and
destruction, it negated all life. Further down the hall, this
basic theme kept repeating itself. The audience which had
expected a great deal more was subdued. This exhibition of
Samira Singh's was after a lull of five years. Sam was the
famous painter who had earned much name and fame in the
international fora. Samira was especially well known for her
depiction of a woman, old and tired with a face creased with
worries, yet possessing powerfully brilliant eyes as if she had
still not finished with the business of living.   *       
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*        *        *       *        "Sam" called Ritika " I am
getting a little tired of these women you make....... they seem
all alike, hungry and crazy for life, yet weary