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Zodiac sign
Gemini
Place of Birth
Naihati, West Bengal, India
Place of Death
Calcutta
State Country of Birth
West Bengal, India
1932
Chittagong Government College, Chittagong, India (present-day Bangladesh)
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Had no formal training in art. The village sculptures and puppet players inspired him to become an artist.
1965
Learned the techniques of Czech puppetry by Frantisek Salaba (a puppeteer who was living in Bombay at the time)
Participated in the National Movement by making posters, drawings and cartoons
Member of the Communist Party of India, Published Hungry Bengal, a pamphlet documenting his experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, most copies of which were burned by the British Raj before they could leave the press. A few were salvaged. His drawings of the Bengal Famine were published in Communist party journals People's War and Janayudha.
He worked for the Left Press, Mumbai. He did works depicting the Telangana Peasants armed struggle against the Nizam's tyrannical regime in Hyderabad
Responded to the call of the World Peace Movement by contributing his art to the cause of World Peace
Founded his own puppet-theatre, Khela Ghar, in collaboration with and towards rejuvenating traditional Indian puppeteers
Made a series of Lino-cuts titled Angels Without Fairy Tales depicting Indian children as sufferers of poverty, disease and oppression
The Danish U.N.I.C.E.F. Committee published the collection of his Lino-cuts Angels Without Fairy Tales dedicated to the International Conference in Defence of Children
Donated his series of paintings titled Neglected Childhood, to the Danish United Nations Children's Fund Committee
Was involved in writing stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata for children, in verse form with illustrations done by himself
Illustrated Indian Fables and Fairy Tales and With Puppets to Calcutta by the Czech writer, Norbert Fryd
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Place of Birth
Naihati, West Bengal, India
Place of Death
Calcutta
State Country of Birth
West Bengal, India
1932
Chittagong Government College, Chittagong, India (present-day Bangladesh)
#
Had no formal training in art. The village sculptures and puppet players inspired him to become an artist.
1965
Learned the techniques of Czech puppetry by Frantisek Salaba (a puppeteer who was living in Bombay at the time)
Participated in the National Movement by making posters, drawings and cartoons
Member of the Communist Party of India, Published Hungry Bengal, a pamphlet documenting his experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, most copies of which were burned by the British Raj before they could leave the press. A few were salvaged. His drawings of the Bengal Famine were published in Communist party journals People's War and Janayudha.
He worked for the Left Press, Mumbai. He did works depicting the Telangana Peasants armed struggle against the Nizam's tyrannical regime in Hyderabad
Responded to the call of the World Peace Movement by contributing his art to the cause of World Peace
Founded his own puppet-theatre, Khela Ghar, in collaboration with and towards rejuvenating traditional Indian puppeteers
Made a series of Lino-cuts titled Angels Without Fairy Tales depicting Indian children as sufferers of poverty, disease and oppression
The Danish U.N.I.C.E.F. Committee published the collection of his Lino-cuts Angels Without Fairy Tales dedicated to the International Conference in Defence of Children
Donated his series of paintings titled Neglected Childhood, to the Danish United Nations Children's Fund Committee
Was involved in writing stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata for children, in verse form with illustrations done by himself
Illustrated Indian Fables and Fairy Tales and With Puppets to Calcutta by the Czech writer, Norbert Fryd