MF Hussain Dead at 95, Paintings Included Controversial Nude Images MF Husain passes away in London MF Hussain Dead

MF Husain at Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Birth name	Maqbool Fida Husain
Born	17 September 1915(1915-09-17) Pandharpur, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	9 June 2011(2011-06-09) (aged 95) London, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	Indian; Qatari[1]
Field	Painting, Drawing, Writer
Training	Sir J. J. School of Art
Movement	Progressive Art Group
Works	Mother India; illustrations to Ramayana, Mahabarata
Awards	Padma Shri Padma Bhushan Padma Vibhushan
Website	http://www.mfhussain.com/

MF Husain passes away in London

Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) popularly known as MF, was a prominent Indian painter. According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India".^[2]

Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. After a long career, in 1996, when Husain was 81 years old, controversy arose over paintings originally created in the 1970s which were interpreted as anti-Hindu. After legal cases and death threats in his home country, he was on a self imposed exile from 2006. In January, 2010, he was offered the citizenship of Qatar, which he accepted. He died in London the following year.

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Baba Ramdev announced that in keeping with his "commitment to complete transparency

June 9: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who has been accused of financial malpractices by his critics, including Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh, on Thursday declared the assets of firms and trusts associated with him.

Ramdev’s close aide Acharya Balakrishna, while giving details of Ramdev’s financial assets said: “The details of our accounts are published on our website. We have followed all RBI and taxation rules. Our trusts are transparent. We have spent Rs. 249 crore in charity. We have given free medical treatment in many villages. The capital with Patanjali trust is Rs. 164 crores.”

Meanwhile, Ramdev, who had a ‘maun vrat’ or vow of silence, said that he was declaring on his website the financial details of his empire and keeping his commitment to complete transparency

Ramdev said he had stolen people’s hearts, not money.Digvijay Singh had on Sunday justified the government crackdown on the yoga guru, saying the treatment meted out to Ramdev was appropriate.

“There are certain laws and regulations in the country, you cannot allow people like Ramdev to run riot in the capital city. He was trying to incite people in the Ramlila maidan,” he said.

Singh said Ramdev had reached an agreement, but still went ahead with his fast.

“This is another way of fooling people. He deceived the entire country,” he added.

Singh’s remarks came after Ramdev was evicted along with thousands of his supporters from Delhi’s Ramlila ground in a midnight drama on Sunday, where he was sitting on an indefinite fast-unto-death’ demanding that black money stashed in safe havens abroad be brought back to India.

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