The first time you met Yusuf Arakkal, you came away thinking you had known him all your life. I knew Yusuf for well over three decades — to write about him in the past tense now doesn’t seem right. Yusuf didn’t speak a lot about art, preferring to talk football and cricket. Yusuf was master of atmosphere, bringing a texture to his paintings and a technique which was a version of Rembrandt’s. Next morning Yusuf arrived at home with that book as a gift.

Source: The Hindu October 08, 2016 02:03 UTC