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His epic works have brought him praise and protest

By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent / April 7, 2007

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SALEM -- To the eyes of most visitors to "Epic India: M. F. Husain's Mahabharata Project," on view at the Peabody Essex Museum through June 3, the lithograph "Draupadi With Dice" is innocent enough: A ghostly white woman, her hips and breasts draped in a long scarf, tumbles amid colorful dice. (Full article: 1243 words)

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