“WOMAN—THREE STAGES” BY SIDDHARTH SHINGADE, ACRYLICS,  43 X 53 CM, 2009 

One of a series of works by Sheikh inspired by the verse of the mystic 15-century poet Kabir. The noted Baroda-based painter (born 1937) uses brilliant colour, line and landscape to capture the romance of musk and Kabir’s allusion to it. Kabir compared musk to God, saying that although the musk is within the deer, the deer does not look for it—suggesting that each of us should find God within ourselves.