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Painting a picture of colonial cruelty

By: Keerthi Mohan

by AMIT ROY A DRAMATIC painting of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the Singh Twins, Rabindra and Amrit, was unveiled last week at the Manchester Museum by Lord Meghnad Desai on the centenary of the atrocity. Measuring 2.5 x 3 metres and executed in the Mughal miniature style for which the Singh Twins are known, the painting is called Jallianwala: Repression and Retribution. It will remain on display until October 2. “It is a beautiful painting which puts in a lot of the historical context,” said Desai, who inaugurated an exhibition on Jallianwala Bagh, curated by a team headed by…

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