Samita Basu -

Art Advisory

Born in Calcutta, Samita comes from a family of writers, painters and musicians. Her father, the late Mangala Charan Chattopadhyay, was a renowned Bengali poet who won many prestigious literary awards in his lifetime. He was an active member of the Progressive Writers’ Association, which brought Samita in close contact with many leading Bengali intellectuals of the time, her association with them stoking the fires of her own creative passions.Despite the politically charged ambience of her Read More