MF Husain, India's most popular and controversial artist, may return to his beloved India through a museum of his painting in Mumbai, the artist's son, Mustafa, told Hindustan Times on Sunday. Dipankar De Sarkar writes.

No doubt Husain was a great painter who marketed himself successfully — often by crossing the lakshman-rekha. Satya Prakash writes.

It can be debated whether Maqbool Fida Husain was the greatest artist India ever produced. But what’s beyond pale is that he was the most successful one.  Amitava Sanyal writes.

Maqbool Fida Husain, India’s most celebrated artist of the 20th century, who passed away on the morning of June 9, left behind a colossal body of work spanning more than six decades

MF Husain was always full of excitement and ever on the move, reminisces Madhuri Dixit, the celebrated painter's first Bollywood muse with whom he had planned an ambitious project on Indian cinema.

After a life filled with vibrant women, colours and controversy, MF Husain was given a quiet and religious burial in a leafy Surrey cemetery by a small group of family, friends and admirers on Friday. Dipankar De Sarkar reports.

Maqbool Fida Husain, independent India’s most famous artist, died in a London hospital on Thursday — five years after going into exile following violent right-wing protests against his paintings. He was 95. HT reports. | The last interview | Portrait of a finger-snapper | Great & controversial | Life and times of MF Husain  | Five frames of Fida

With surreal timing, two paintings by MF Husain sold at the London auction house Christie’s on Thursday, drawing a packed house just over 12 hours after the painter died. Dipankar De Sarkar reports. Pics: My art, my women |

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday paid tribute to MF Husain, calling him a “national asset” and said his body should be flown back to India for the last rites. HT reports.

My memories of Chetana date back to 1947 but it is just as if it happened yesterday. It was around that time that I entered the art world. Ara, Souza and others had just formed the Bombay Progressive Artists Group; though I had been in Bombay since 1936 I had never met these people. By MF Husain

For the two years that artist MF Husain spent at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Colaba, he found great pride in sharing lunch with the scientists in the institute’s canteen. Reetika Subramanian writes.

‘Husain was the walking, talking billboard  for Indian art,’ says Arun Vadehra, whose Delhi gallery has been associated woth the artist since the early 1990s. As much as for his art itself, this was also true for the barefoot artist being market-savvy. Amitava Sanyal writes.

There’s a lot to hurry through in the art of Maqbool Fida Husain to get to the point. Renuka Narayanan writes.

I never believed Husain could die. At his 95th birthday last September in Doha, he took me to see Dabanng. He always treated me like a son. Ram Rahman reminisces.

.MF Husain had quite a few cellphone numbers, some of which would go out of reach or were simply not available, as he lived between Doha, Dubai and London, also travelling to New York to attend art shows. He was unreachable, mostly. A day before being diagnosed for water retention last week, Husain called from Dubai. Driven by habit, I had recorded a brief interview. Khalid Mohamed writes.