The Conductor and his orchestra: Samant's works in the ongoing show "Masked Dance for the Ancestors" at Mumbai's Jhaveri Contemporary is a study in world culture It was an usually unvarying routine, that went on for several years, right until he died in 2004: Mohan Samant would wake up early in the morning in the New York loft that he shared with his wife Jillian, make tea and spend three hours playing music on his beloved sarangi. Only after lunch, says Jillian, did the artist sit before his easel.
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