It is said of the artists that their work should speak for them and not the artists. There seems to be some truth in it because that was what I found in a renowned artist from our city N.S. Harsha when he visited our office two months back to collect some news items relating to his works published in Star of Mysore and also to organise its daily printing at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, during the exhibition via PDF. Indeed, he was a man of few words and, as with such people, unassuming for all his name and fame acquired rather early in his life. He mentioned that he wanted the material as information input about Mysuru City, where he belongs to and works from, for the forthcoming first major solo exhibition of his works at the Mori Art Museum, Japan. This honour is in recognition of Harsha’s status as one among world’s pre-eminent Indian artists. Interestingly, as part of his exhibition, a mind space of Mysuru was created by printing the daily edition of SOM at the Exhibition Centre till the last day.
