Born in Kolkata, he participated in National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi in 2000. Continued participating in state and regional level exhibitions and was awarded ‘Camlin Art Foundation Award' in 2002. He took a hiatus from painting in 2008 and wrote a novel ‘The Slashed Canvas' published in 2015 by Partridge India – a Penguin Random House company. Currently experimenting in contemporary figurative. He has also worked as a Mining Engineer for a sh ...