Avtar Mota is a photographer, blogger, poet and a writer. His writeups on art, literature, films and social life have appeared in many magazines and newspapers within the country and abroad. Started in 2010, his blog, 'Chinar Shade', has more than 16 lakhs views. He is a widely travelled writer.
Since 1982, I have been visiting various museums and art galleries. Many photographs were clicked, and many details were regularly recorded by me without any mission or immediate purpose. Many friends kept on provoking me to give all this record a proper shape and some place for posterity. My hectic bank job prevented me from attending to this work. After superannuation, sometime around 2016, I set out on a serious mission to do what I could not do while in banking. I decided to write a book on the journey of Kashmir's art and the unsung artist, Bansi Parimu.
Bansi Parimu's work and personality had fascinated me from my college days. To me, he was an embodiment of struggle. The struggle of a man from starvation to settlement. Settlement on the basis of sheer merit and hard work. Even when he never entered college to procure a degree, he proved a far better human being than many of his degree- holding contemporaries. He learned the art by total observation and self-education by putting into practice the philosophy of neither this nor that, i.e. the significance of the view is in the eye of the beholder; that which in our philosophy is known as neti, neti. All this appealed to me as something rare.
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