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Students bring wetlands to the city An exhibition set up by them wants to “forge new connections, to dismantle the invisible walls that separate the city from the wetlands”
A great view from apartment balconies and a source of cheap vegetables, the wetlands to the east of Calcutta occupy a limited space in the minds of its people.
An exhibition set up by students wants to change that. It wants to “forge new connections, to dismantle the invisible walls that separate the city from the wetlands”.
A “waste map” is one of the displays at the two-day exhibition that started on Saturday. It tracks the journey of sewage from a visitor’s home to a natural wastewater treatment plant. Another exhibit asks a visitor to pick ingredients for a Bengali dish and then trace their source to the same ecosystem.
Soumitra Das | | Published 19.12.20, 01:01 AM
Chittaprosad is the poster boy of protest. The deprived and the downtrodden find their voice in his extensive artwork, from his heartrending visual reportage of the devastating 1943 famine that took a heavy toll of human lives to his cartoons of despots and money-grubbers and his later visions of a life of paradisiac bliss in unspoilt backwaters. So, is it surprising that the relevance of the online exhibition,
People’s Artist
Chittaprosad: In Solidarity, In Solitude (October 10-November 15), has increased manifold today? A time when the Opposition fragmented and crushed though it is is up in arms against the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s use of brute force to splinter the country along sectarian lines and to push through various legislations aimed at destabilizing the country’s democratic spir