Artist Profile

About Artist

My work is deeply influenced by my two converging life-worlds. I was born in one of Bengal’s erstwhileland-owning zamindar families, a class that, in the post-Independence period,witnessed the steady degeneration of not only its socio-economic standing but also its exalted position as the patron of arts and culture. Despite this slow material elision wrought through time and social change, the nostalgia and memory of its aristocratic past survived in my ...