Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who wrote movingly about the bronze sculpture in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Mulk Raj Anand
Option (1) Amarnath Sahgal — Incorrect. He is the sculptor who made this bronze, Cries Un-heard. The writing on it came from a poet.
Option (2) Mulk Raj Anand — Correct. The socialist poet Mulk Raj Anand wrote movingly about Cries Un-heard.
Option (3) Ananda Coomaraswamy — Incorrect. He was an art historian who held ideas like swadeshi in art. He is not linked with this sculpture.
Option (4) Rabindranath Tagore — Incorrect. He was a poet who turned to visual art late in life. He is not linked with this sculpture.
NCERT (2026-27): “Cries Un-heard This is a sculpture in bronze made by Amarnath Sahgal in 1958. … It is possible for us to read this work as socialist, whereby, the artist pays homage to millions of destitute families in need of help, whose cries fall on deaf ears. None other than socialist poet, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote movingly about this work, which now is in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.” “Tracing the Modern Indian Art …Ideas like swadeshi in art were held by art historians like Ananda Coomaraswamy around the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.”
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