Indian Ambassador Inaugurates "Tagore and Mahfouz Caricature" Exhibition

Nada Mustafa

On the occasion of the celebration of Tagore’s birth anniversary, the Maulana Azad Indian Cultural Center in Zamalek hosted an exhibition of caricature portraits under the title “Tagore - Mahfouz.”

The exhibition was opened by the Indian Ambassador to Cairo, Ajit Gupte, and Dr. Camelia Sobhi, a member of the Senate, in the presence of an elite group of caricature artists and visual artists, and a number of journalists and media professionals. And the audience.

Artist Fawzi Morsi, the exhibition coordinator, said: The exhibition presents a wonderful collection of caricatures that bring together two of the world’s greats who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, namely the Egyptian novelist and writer Naguib Mahfouz and the Indian poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore. It includes more than 50 caricature panels drawn by the fingertips of 50 artists from 21 countries around the world. Among them are Egypt and India.

Morsi added: The celebration includes the announcement of the names of the winners of the Egyptian artists participating in the “Tagore-Mahfouz Caricature” Competition, which was announced last February, and includes 3 financial prizes presented by the Maulana Azad Indian Cultural Center.

The exhibition is organized by the Maulana Azad Indian Cultural Center in cooperation with the Caricature Museum in Fayoum and the Egypt Cartoon platform, and a group of prominent Egyptian artists participate in it from Egypt, including: Ahmed Alawi, Hosni Abbas, Adham Lotfy, Farouk Moussa, Khaled Al-Marsafi, Noura Makram, Ghada Mostafa, Hadir Yahya. Bassem Adham Lotfy, Hani Abdel Gawad, Marwa Ibrahim, Omar Siddiq, Shaima Shafi’i, Yasmine Gamal, and others from different countries.