Portrait of a Model
Outlook|July 11, 2023
A prose poem inspired by a painting bearing the same title, by Jamil Ahmad Khan, an artist from Ahmedabad.
Gaurav Monga
Portrait of a Model

IN the city of Ahmedabad, sits a portrait of a model, his paper hat made from yellow scrap and string. And though we cannot see much more of his attire, we would like to imagine this person to be a spinning dervish of sorts, arrested as he is, mounted on white borders against a white wooden frame in the inner recesses of this walled city, an erstwhile Sufi corridor hosting lost saints.

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