Candid Moments

2018. Patrice de la Perrier (1944 – 2023), celebrated art critic and Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He supported me enormously on the style of my art and in the articulation of “Abstract with hidden figurative.”

INDIA’S BLOODY INDEPENDENCEIN 1947

When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.