MP: Rtd Colonel's accidental brush with art
Bhopal,
Oct
9:
Abstract
and
surreal
themes
--
not
the
horrors
of
a
blood-bespattered
battlefield
--
are
depicted
in
the
paintings
of
Sena
Medal-recipient
Colonel
(Retd)
Manohar
Singh
Advani,
a
veteran
of
the
1965
and
1971
Indo-Pak
wars.
''How is it that you are a fauji and still paint,'' was the question that people shot more than once at the former Corps of Engineers officer, an outdoor person who plays golf to keep in shape and takes spiritual refuge in the Srimad Bhagavatam.
CLAD
in
white-sleeved
kurta,
shorts
and
sporting
a
white
turban,
he
told
UNI
Story first published: Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 13:23 [IST]