A Lament For Souza (In The Week Of Lucian Freud’s Death)

by Vivek Menezes Not a single decade has passed, yet the circumstances of Francis Newton Souza’s last years already seem inconceivable. I’ve been stewing about this since coverage of the death of “Nudist painter Lucian Freud” inexplicably spread across the Indian press right into my morning papers here, a media backwater that is by far…