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R. Krishnan, who went by the nom-de-plume ‘Kitna’, has been awarded Padma Shri posthumously for his publication to the creation and civilization of the Alu Kurumba assemblage successful the Nilgiris.
Known for his vivid cloth paintings inspired by stone creation sites, his benignant has go highly fashionable and adjacent mimicked by different artists implicit the past 30 years, said an activistic who has been documenting stone creation sites utilizing indigenous cognition of the Nilgiris hills.
Krishnan, who passed distant past March, had drawn inspiration from the stone creation tract astatine Vellaricombai successful the Nilgiris, which was utilized by the Alu Kurumba assemblage arsenic inspiration for coating murals connected the walls of their homes. He would besides usage lone integrated paints made from earthy dyes and fibres.
Speaking to The Hindu, members of his household said that the designation was a bittersweet infinitesimal for the household arsenic they had hoped that helium was inactive live to person the prestigious designation from the government. Mr. Krishnan had besides wanted a Geographical Indicator (GI) tag bestowed connected creation produced by the Kurumbas, galore of whom helium had trained to go artists.
His enduring bequest successful creating caller artists from the assemblage persisted close until his passing, arsenic conscionable a time earlier helium died, helium had conducted a store for schoolhouse students connected Kurumba paintings.
His wife, Susheela, who lives successful Mettupalayam successful Coimbatore, said that Krishnan’s passing was highly hard for her and their 4 children. She said that portion they were thrilled astatine being told of the honour bestowed connected Krishnan, that they hoped it could person travel erstwhile helium was alive, arsenic helium had felt that helium had been mostly forgotten successful his second years.
