Calcutta Group and the Progressive Art Movement: 1940s

Prof. Chhatrapati Dutta is the Principal of Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. He studied art at Visva Bharati in Santiniketan, and his practice explores the issues of post-colonial India, such as the rising consumerist culture of a developing nation through the lens of the city of Kolkata.

Aranya Bhowmik is a Doctoral Candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur). An alma mater of Visva Bharati, Bhowmik is also an independent art writer and his articles have been published in various journals and magazines like Searching Lines, Insignia and Art East.