India, Dec. 28 -- This large exhibition celebrates artist Satish Gujral's centenary year and his seven-decade-long practise as a painter, sculptor, muralist, architect, and thinker. The exhibition's curator, Kishore Singh, said: "In his centennial year exhibition, I locate him as an artist whose work spanned the entire period of nation building across the 20th century, and several mediums." The exhibition includes his works on Partition, those he painted in Mexico while on a scholarship in 1952, the Emergency, Indira Gandhi's assassination that led to the Delhi riots, and his memories of Jhelum, now in Pakistan, where he was born. "He was an artist deeply concerned about what was happening around him. But he was impaired in hearing since he was eight, hence did not participate in conversations around him," said Singh. He worked from the solitude of his studio, reflecting upon the world as he saw around him, the aftermath of political violence, and its impact thereafter. "He was not a page one writer of a newspaper but a columnist," said Singh. In 1999, at the age of 79, Gujral had an ocular transplant. His works then for some time were about incandescent lights going out. But just after two years, he reversed the surgery to return to his world of silence. His last works were more colourful and happy, about his family, grandchildren and his memories of Jhelum....