Features, cover stories, columns and quiet visits — the writing that surrounds the paintings.
A life in art is rarely measured by success alone. It is shaped by discipline, memory, loss, observation, and the courage to begin again. For Ranjit Das, becoming an artist has been a lifelong process of learning and unlearning. From his rigorous years in Baroda under K. G. Subramanyan to the memories of war, the attic room of Shakhari Bazar, and the quiet act of observing the world from above, each experience has contributed to his visual language. Perhaps the true measure of his journey lies not in the balance sheet of success, but in the accumulation of seeing.
A visit to Jamal Uddin Ahmed’s studio offers more than an opportunity to view paintings. Explore the artist’s working process, personal history, lifelong friendships, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life that shape his practice. Through decades of artworks, cherished memories, and the atmosphere of his Elephant Road studio, the visit becomes a journey into the world behind the canvas.
A conversation with Ratneswar Sutradhar about lilies, Pixel Error, fatherhood, the haor, and the quiet world that shapes one of Bangladesh's most distinctive contemporary artists…
