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ARPITA SINGH

rpita Singh was discovered by accident. In the early 1970s, scholar and costumier Roshen Alkazi—who, along with her husband, Ebrahim Alkazi, is responsible for hundreds of contemporary art exhibitions in India—found one of Singh’s paintings mixed up with the works of another artist she was hoping to exhibit. Alkazi presented Singh’s first solo exhibition at New Delhi’s Kunika Chemould Gallery in 1972. In

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