raghu rai's reply from long ago.

About the time that Raghubir Singh wrote about  the necessity of being  English literate  to be a good photographer - because  the 'History of Photography is written in English', I had written a review of a  Raghu Rai exhibition  in new Delhi - of his Delhi photographs.

Here is a quote from him  - "They are visually illiterate ad mentally arrogant . Just because 'angrezi'  is a big deal here anyone who knows it can get up and criticise anything.What right do they have to criticise something they know nothing about. Photography is a misunderstood affair in India. Even photographers don't understand the medium. And wordsmen want to remain supreme regardless of everything."
                          The Economic Times . Sunday 30 January, 1994