Vidya Bhushan’s life and work embody the extraordinary intersections of art, politics, and culture in twentieth-century India.

The youthful Bhushan fashioned himself as a sort of bohemian, renaissance man, expressing himself through dance and the visual arts.

Bhushan’s commission to paint murals at the Hyderabad House in Delhi

Momentous times in Hyderabad after Independence, and a commission to do a portrait of General Choudhary’s wife.

Meeting leaders of the Non Aligned Movement in Yugoslavia.

Friendship with M.F Hussain and other Hyderabad artists.

Vidya Bhushan and Bondarenko Nikolay Ignatievich doing demonstrations at the College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad,

Bhushan’s friendship with artist Francois Gilot