1887, Beliatore village, West Bengal. A curious child was born. At the age of 16, he left home to move to modern-day Kolkata and enrolled himself in the Government College of Art. Under Abanindranath Tagore, he received a Diploma in Fine Arts. He did as his education demanded and pursued Western classical art traditions. However, around the year 1925, he came to the morose realization that this style of art, as beautiful as it was, wasn't something his heart desired. Later th

As you wait in anticipation of the rain to stop, Dressed in yearning skin, My tired fingers are writing this poetry for someone.

“I was conceived in the womb of one poet and sired by another. Poetry, I suspect, was ruling my stars from the very first moment of my...