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Chronicle of a death foretold

Chandigarh-based artist Malkit Singh is no more. Who will tell his wife?

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Malkit Singh

Artist and vice-president of Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi

1943-2018

Like always I had forgotten the way to his house in Chandigarh. We had later abused Le Corbusier for designing a cold city with straight lines, without landmarks. His apartment door had been open. He said no one could steal anything from him. That he had nothing. "Well, if a thief breaks-in just for art, he deserves to take it all," he had said

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