India, March 4 -- For the followers of Indian art, it has been a season of sadness. Himmat Shah's passing on March 2 is like the loss of another pillar of Indian modernist aspiration. Hailed by Krishen Khanna as a "free spirit" and by J Swaminathan "as a bird who has forgotten how to stop migrating", Shah's position in Indian sculpture was unparalleled for the depth of meaning he was able to draw out of a single enigmatic form. Largely identified with his sculpted heads, in bronze and terracotta, which appear both cranial and phallic, Shah has used them to trace mappings, mark wayward journeys, fissures and features, as an enduring commentary on the human condition....