Associated with news since the early 60's and with television from the early 70’s. An alumnus of FTII, Pune, trained at BBC London, AIBD Malaysia, NDR Germany, ABC (Australia). He received two National and twenty-eight International Awards for Best Documentary films.
He has written extensively on history and appreciation of Indian and world art. He has 23 books on various aspects of arts published by different publishers. He was associated with Anandabazar Patrika as an art critic for 27 years and regularly contributes articles in various important journals.
Eminent Sculptor. Alumnus of Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. Recipient of National Award from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 2000. Member of Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata.
Former Curator, Kala Bhavana Museum, Visva Bharati, and eminent art historian. He has written extensively about Indian art—especially works by Rabindranath Tagore—since 1983. On Tagore’s 150th birthday, Adhikary was invited by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Delhi and the Indian Embassies in Hungary and Sri Lanka to speak in Budapest and Colombo about the Tagore’s work.
Alumnus of Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata 1978. and One of the most eminent painters in India. As a tireless experimenter, Aich’s ever-productive creativity kept adding newer dimensions to his expression. He is associated with different kinds of social activities. He resides and works in Kolkata.
Communication Specialist, Working in Advertising field for last 50 years. Received several Awards & accolades from the Advertising and Media fraternity. Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from Advertising Club of Kolkata.
Works as an editorial staff at DESH, a popular Bengali literary magazine, from the ABP Group. He loves to seek the interplay between art and science and further between science and society. Even though he is not a person from the art world and definitely is not a practicing scientist, he has recently been reading popular articles and books about the ideas being developed about the neurological basis of our perception and interpretation of art. He believes that these aspects are worth discussing. There are also other areas where science and art meet. He would love to see these areas explored and ideas disseminated.
Subhabrata Nandi is a practicing visual artist for twenty years. He is an alumnus of Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. He was associated as an art educator with South Point School, Kolkata from 2000- 2005 and then Garden High School, Kolkata from 2005 till date. Subhabrata Nandi is the Founder-Editor of this website where painters, sculptors, ceramists, photographers, designers, architects, graphic artists along with art historians, art educators, art connoisseurs, art writers, essayists and art lovers can join their hands together to reach out and make the society aware of the importance of visual arts and it’s all round development. Last fifteen years He had several group shows and a successful critically acclaimed solo show in Kolkata 2017.
Ritwick Mallick is one of the members of Expert Committee on School Education, Department of Education, Government of West Bengal. He has been writing on cultural heritage, ancient monuments, literary arts, visual arts, socio-cultural history and its various aspects in many reputed journals and magazines for long. Some of his books are Bishnupurer Terracotta Mandir: Darkroom Theke Aaloy, Mastermashaai, Najruler ‘Dhumketu’: Sampaadokiyo Bishaysuchi O Onyanyo and Verrier Elwin-er ‘Adibasi’.
Ritendra Roy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Arts, University of Kalyani, West Bengal. He is a practicing fine artist who has been exhibiting his works throughout the country and abroad over the last few decades through solo and curatorial projects. He resides in Kolkata.
Tanima Bhattacharya is a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Gold Medalist, and alumni of Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University. She is a practicing art historian, critic, and writer, working as a guest faculty at NIFT Kolkata, former faculty in the Department of History of Art, Rabindra Bharati University. Tanima has been extensively working on the juncture of Art-Technology and Urban Design, currently collaborating with the Queen Mary University of London.
Arundhati Das is an Assistant Professor at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and research scholar at Jadavpur University. Her research area mainly focuses on Psycholinguistics and the evaluation of language Primers. Feature writing in the field of Art and Culture has become her personal interest.
Mausumi Roy is a practicing ceramic artist, an alumnus of Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata 2001 to 2007. She is recipient of Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship given by Lalit kala Akademi, New Delhi for the year 2013 – 2014. She resides and works in Kolkata and associated with Indus Valley World School, Kolkata.
Chandrashekhar Shetti (Bhubaneswar) is a practicing visual artist. MFA from Benaras Hindu University in 2000. NET (UGC) 2008. He is associated as the Lecturer in Dept of Painting, B K College of Art & Craft, Bhubaneswar.
Ganesh Tartare (Mumbai) is an Alumnus of Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai and at present associated there as an Asst. Professor. He is an eminent practicing visual artist and a tireless experimenter with abstraction.
Dipannita Bhattacherya is a marketing professional, working in the corporate world for the last 10 years. She is also a freelance content and blog writer. Art and travelling are the two major things which enable her to maintain a proper work life balance. Her love for art and reading about the great masters inspire her. Painting is therapeutic for her amidst squeezing corporate pressure and daily mundane.