Suman Chitrakar (35 years) is a young folk artist who carries lineage of traditional Bengal patachitra artists involved in painting patachitra scrolls and compose verses of the songs that accompanies those scrolls. He had learnt the art from Jaideep Chitrakar, another Bengal patachitra scroll painter, and started painting at the age of 20. Suman has been trying new themes into the traditional patachitra art form creating a distinctive style of his own. L ...