Overview

• He marked his 100th birthday on July 5 as the sole surviving member of the Progressive Artists’ Group that defined post-Independence Indian modernism
• On his centenary, Khanna unveiled fresh monochrome drawings and a large color canvas inspired by music and dance
• Institutions including the Raza Foundation and India International Centre are hosting seminars, a critics’ colloquium and a screening of Laurent Bregea’s film to honour his career
• Painting daily from his Gurugram home, he says his thoughts are more lucid now and he is experimenting with new techniques and motifs
• Eight decades of work—empathic portrayals of truckwallas, bandwallas and other subaltern figures plus murals at ITC Maurya and Chennai’s Chola Sheraton—have earned him honors such as the Padma Bhushan