“O Bachchoo should we be afraid of the Word?The broken promise, the violated vowOr should we marvel at the poems we’ve heardWhich promise solace in the here and now?Is the Word both the curse that.
He is survived by his wife - a noted Marathi film and theatre director-actor Vijaya Mehta, daughter Anahita Uberoi - last seen in web series Rocket Boys, and Vijaya's sons from her first marriage, Ravi and Deven Khote.
On Saturday, as news of Husain passing away in Delhi, where he had lived, spread through the theatre community across the country, it was a time to reminisce.