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Affinité / Affinity
Amicale / Friendly
Amitié / Friendship
Amour bizarre / Bizarre love
Amour d'été / Summer love
Curieuse / Curious
Échange d'amour / Sharing love
Ensemble / Together
Entrelacer / Intertwine
Entremêler / Interweave
Maillage / Meshing
Esprit paisible  / Peaceful spirit
Heureux / Happy
Innocent / Innocent
Intimite / Intimacy
Moment romantique / Romantic moment
Nature pure / Pure nature
Poignant / Poignant
Proximité / Proximity
Réflexion / Reflection
Sentiment / Sentiment
Souffle d'amour / Breath of love
Touche de printemps / Touch of spring
Troika / Troika
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Imagination in a small square: Battling 2020 lockdown

I want to thrash it, this horrible pandemic that’s crept up on us since January 2020. It is giving us nothing but grief in 24 hours. Its unpredictability at every hour has made so many families across the globe cry over the loss of their loved ones. It is pushing me to burst with my brush, colour and canvas. In exasperation, representing 24 hours, I chose to paint 24 small (20x20cm) canvases in one extended shot although I generally make large size paintings. I set out to express aggravation, but the result has been a cacophony of colours. “IMAGINATION IN A SMALL SQUARE: Battling 2020 lockdown” is the name I’ve given the series. Perhaps being irreverent with colours will somehow lead us to see the end of the tunnel. 

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.