Jacques Higlin (1940 – 2018) was a great French pop singer. I was highly involved with singers, writers, historians and philosophers in France because I am a great lover of French art and culture. Jacques was a great friend, I loved his songs and he loved my paintings. This picture was taken at my exhibition at Musée de l’Affiche Paris in 1993.
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.
