Sen grew up in an environment of artists in art, music, literature and film in France. “In a sudden coup de foudre (love at first sight) I drew them,” he says. Having lived and worked In France since 1973, he had understood the inner sense of these artists, their creative ingenuity. So one day in 2007 he interpreted the identity of these artists through his Gesturism art treatment.
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.