Rahi accepted the challenge and though time and space separates these two travellers (musafir and rahi both mean ‘traveller’) the empathy that Rahi had for his subject comes through forcefully.

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled this portrait in Parliament, along with those of other prominent Indians on December 22 became the occasion to remember Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir. Please click here to read more.