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Haku Shah is one of India's most renowned artist-scholars-in addition to being a painter and a teacher he is also an anthropologist. He is regarded as the authority on the folk and tribal traditions of Indian art. He set up a folk art museum in Ahmedabad. His paintings reflect the apparent simplicities of rural life-often against the backdrop of a landscape with a mythological fee. In a unique collaboration Haku Shah and Shubha Mudgal came together in a series of exhibition-concerts evoking religious pluralism, 'promoting peace through image and song'. Haku Shah was awarded ...