THE BRIDGE

‘The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas’, a film by Mark Herman, screened at
Kolkata Film Festival dumbfounded me. It not only enlightened me to
find a new way of looking things that happened in past, but I also
discovered a BRIDGE between past and present. A painting of any medium
depicts the ‘Time’ Butchery of children for political or any other
reason is a shame for mankind. But still such dreadful killings are
going on in this capitalist society.

Exhibition of My Paintings at Kala Academy,Panji,Goa-(ii)

'Basudev is a voracious reader of quality literature and Franz Kafka has occupied major space in his intellectual ideas."A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us," said Franz Kafka, the enigmatic German writer of Jewish lineage.'

'For Basudev, it emerged as the absolute truth. The apparent hopelessness and absurdity that seem to permeate Kafka's works apparently shifts over in Basudev's works and hope and desire filter through. Themes of alienation and persecution are repeatedly accentuated with a glimmer of optimism and underlying joy. The "Bridge" repeats through his paintings as a symbol of joyful coexistence and aspired camaraderie across the various segments, class, faith, nations, etc.'

BY NAGUESH RAO SARDESSAI,
BUZZ,THE NAVHIND TIMES,
Panaji, Goa,
Wednesday, February 8,2012.