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2015. Jun Aso is a well known Japanese sculptor whom I met in Tokyo.

1991. Utpal Dutt (1921 – 1993) & Sobha Sen (1923 – 2017).  Utpal Dutt was a great intellectual and a legendary Indian actor, director and playwright renowned for his versatile roles in both Bengali and Hindi cinema. He was a good friend of mine with whom I spent a lot of time together on French

2025. Akiko Kai is a commentator of the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum. She is the 2nd generation survivor of the Hiroshima atom bomb blast in 1945. I had always wanted to meet an atom bomb survivor to get the real description of how the Japanese people were impacted on 6 August 1945 at 8.16 am

2007. Bernard Offen is a Polish born Holocaust survivor who endured the Krakow Ghetto and multiple concentration camps, including Plaszow, Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Dachau. He lost 50 members of his family in the Holocaust. Before leaving India I had no idea of this atrocity. Since 1973 after arrival in Paris I discovered the Nazi atrocities.

2024. My French artist friends circle at the home of Nadine le Prince in Paris. From left: Michele Battut, Dr Aline Bonnefoit, Alain Bonnefoit, Nadine le Prince. 

1991. Lady Ranu Mukherji (1907 – 2000), acclaimed Indian patron of art who founded the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata in 1930. There was a human nude drawing training class at the Academy where a professional artist was the trainer. She gave me a free of charge opportunity to participate in this class as

1991. Bikash Bhattacharjee (1940 – 2006) a well-renowned surrealistic painter in India, was a professor in my art college in Kolkata. Through his paintings he depicted the life of the average middle-class Bengali. He is watching my paintings at my exhibition in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata.

2002. Asha Bhosle, among the famous playback singers of India. I had an occasion to do some musical work with her at a recording studio in Mumbai.

2010. Lithography printshop in Cachan, 10 km from Paris south. This was the place where I was a sweeper and when I had the privilege to meet and be a helper in lithograph printing of famous painters of that time like Yves Brayer, Leonor Fini, Carzou, Erte, Vincent Haddlesay, Alain Bonnefoit, Judith Bledsoe among others.

1991. Sankar, among the most popular novelists of Bengal. He’s written 120 books, many of which have been translated into different languages in different parts of the world. This picture was in my exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata.