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As a child, he would take a stroll along the seashore every morning for two hours at a stretch with his father. Today, internationally acclaimed installation artist Subodh Kerkar, who calls himself a sea artist, not only considers sea as his muse, friend and subject but also his biggest teacher. Actually, the first lesson on creativity he learnt from father dearest, also an artist, was on the beaches of Goa.
Two young boys from rural Kerala, one from Chirayinkil and the other Vakkom, thought of doing something ground-breaking. Efforts have paid off and their creative dance theatre group Samudra has not only performed nationally and internationally (they choreographed for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, New Delhi, and performed at the Royal Opera House, London) but also had the rare distinction of working with MF
Husain. "This was our good fortune that we had the opportunity to work with the legendary MF
Husain. We choreographed for his film Meenaxi," says Vakkom Sajeev, in Chandigarh for the Art and Heritage Festival with Madhu
Gopinath.
There is no doubt that all good things come in small packages. Reinforcing this age-old thought, as a part of the ongoing Chandigarh Arts and Heritage Festival 2012, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh Admistration in collaboration with Alliance Francaise and the Bireswar Sen Family Trust have brought a collection of his finest works to Chandigarh.
“In the best of times or the worst, people of India and Pakistan have turned to music to build bridges,” says Lahore-based classical singer Rustom Fateh Ali Khan, the great grandson of Ustad Ali Baksh, who was the founder of Patiala gharana of gayaki. In Chandigarh on his way to Patiala, where he will be given the Nagar Samman by the Punjab Art and Cultural Foundation and Gurmat Sangeet Chair, Punjabi University, we catch up with him. 
