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A politically aware painter, like many others of his time, he felt that abstractions in art are caused by frustrations resulting from a capitalist atmosphere. He comments, "It will be sheer foolishness on our part to neglect reality and run after abstract art in a country which is still in the grip of poverty, illiteracy and prejudice." Bijan Chowdhury has worked on the imagery of Bengali poetry as it has evolved since its earliest days to the present, ...