VEGETABLE SELLERS OF DAL LAKE KASHMIR . A WATER COLOUR BY MASOOD HUSSAIN.

 

This is 6 AM scene in Dal lake . Vegetable sellers filling the boats for transportation of the produce to city Mandis .O the moon is also enjoying the scene.The Pherans , Nadru ( Lotus stem Bundles ), caps , boats , Houses in silhouette, Poplars of lake in night ,smiles and seriousness on the faces are familiar to any person who has lived in kashmir.Colours used make every object lively . fantastic colour sense ans sensitivity . Colours that grant indefinable and austere beauty . God's gift to Masood sahib.This is core kashmir.

The scene looks like a frame from some Satyajit Ray Movie.People , colours , life and emotions . Satyajit ray too was a painter. Poet Agha Shaid Ali was a great admirer of of Satyajit Ray films. He even wrote a poem on Pather Panchali. Here goes the poem

On Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali
Agha Shahid Ali

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Durga dies in the rains,
her tongue bitter with stolen
fruit. Beyond the field, trains
escape a boy’s dreams, run

into the air. A necklace chains
him to the water’s bones, turns
his reflection sour. Wherever
Apu goes, to the temple or the river,
he carries Durga’s smile to the depths of the air.                                                            


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