What Was Before Moving Focus India reveals new and often refreshingly

reveals new and often refreshingly significant facets of its culture and society

and the mortal and the divine

a specially commissioned contribution by artist Matti Braun

He created a community with them and engendered a sense of direction at a time when the public was not fully receptive to the bold artistic exploration of India’s Progressive Art Movement

he considers examples from Dickinson

What Was Before Moving Focus India reveals new and often refreshinglyMartin Mosebachs novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? The answer grows into an entire book, an elaborate house of cards, filled with intrigue, sex, betrayal, exotic birds and far flung locations. Set