Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 15: Triloke Kaul, one of the most distinguished pioneers of modern art in Kashmir and a towering cultural figure of the Kashmiri Pandit community, has passed away.
Kaul was among the first recipients of the Sharda Samman in 1993 at the World Kashmiri Pandit Conference Delhi, honoured alongside icons such as Jagmohan, Pt Prem Nath Shastri, Nirmal Verma and Giri Lal Jain.
Born in Shala Kadal, Srinagar, and trained at Baroda, he was a founding force of the Progressive Artists Association of Kashmir. As Director of the School of Design, he played a vital role in reviving Kashmiri handicrafts and nurturing a generation of artists.
His forced displacement in 1990 led to the tragic loss of much of his artwork, a personal and collective wound that still bleeds. Yet his legacy lives on, in every line and colour that captured a world we were driven out from, and in every young artist he mentored in spirit and thought.
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