One particular of India’s foremost modernists, Syed Haider Raza produced a language of art rooted in Indian tradition but also motivated by his worldview. The bindu was to become the centre of his universe – the epicentre of his maze of geometric styles and also his summary landscapes – by which he released the planet to Indian spiritual iconography. On his birth centenary, now (February 22), we search at his influences and how his artwork and he traversed borders to grow to be a worldwide phenomenon. Where did Raza invest his early lifestyle? Born in Babaria, Madhya Pradesh to Sayed Mohammed Razi, a forest officer, and Tahira Begum in 1922,…