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India's most famous modern artist M.F. Husain died on Thursday in London, media reports said citing family members.Husain, who was aged 95 and known as the "Picasso of India", died at the Royal Brompton hospital in London. "India didn't have the privilege of seeing him in his last moments, that is a huge loss for this country," Jitish Kallat, one of India's leading young artists, told NDTV news. "As an artist several decades younger than him, I feel like a part of the canopy has blown off," he said. "He evolved the public notion of what it meant to be an artist in this country." Maqbool Fida Husain , a Muslim formerly based in Mumbai, was accused by Hindu hardliners of insulting their faith for portraying goddesses in the nude in some of his paintings - a depiction that he said symbolised purity.Following threats by a radical Hindu group and thousands of legal cases filed against him for offending "Hindu sentiment,