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Paris Mohan Kumar

Indian artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ60761195 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paris Mohan Kumar is an UNESCO honored artist and environmental activist from Mahe, Kerala, India.

Early career

Mohan Kumar began his art pursuits in Puducherry, India and later moved to Paris. In 1988, he was listed by UNESCO as one of the 40 greatest artists in the world.

Editorial summary

“Paris Mohan Kumar” enters the record as indian artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paris, Mohan and Kumar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paris, Mohan and Kumar.
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“Paris Mohan Kumar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paris, Mohan and Kumar provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60761195. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paris Mohan Kumar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.