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Remembering Indiaâs First Modern Sculptor, Ramkinkar Baij
He broke free from the stultifying conformism of colonial and pre-modern studio sculpturing to encompass in his work the lives and struggles of plain, unremarkable human beings.
Ramkinkar Baij: (May 25, 1906 â August 2, 1980) Credit: Twitter
My memories of Ramkinkar Baij, such as they are, are interlaced with two things that one rarely associates with an artist. The first, curiously, is kerosene. And the second, somewhat less oddly, is summer, or rather, a hot summer day.
One afternoon in the middle of April, in 1973, my friend and I were walking around Santiniketanâs quiet Ratan Pally on some errand, when my friend nudged me and pointed at someone who was coming from the opposite direction. He was a bare-bodied, bare-footed man in a short dhoti and a wide straw topi, and slung from his right arm by a piece of rope was a green bottle that smelt strongly of kerosene as he passed by us.
Updated Mar 09, 2021 | 13:39 IST
There is an intriguing legend behind the naming of Koilaghat Street or the Koilaghat building. And do you know the British constructed Strand Road with soil shipped from UK? Check the report below to know more. Old Koilaghat Building Koilaghat Street Strand Road View Kolkata (Pic credit: Biswarup Ganguly on Wikimedia Commons)
Key Highlights
The British empire first began with the English traders getting a toe hold in the natural harbour of what was then named Calcutta
The Old Fort William they built there was known as Qila by the Indians and since it lay on the banks of a waterbody, the word Ghat came along