A tribal village in West Bengal that was nondescript until a few years ago, today finds art connecting it to the outside world, with locally-trained artists now being invited to display their talent in shows held in Kolkata. As the year 2024 bowed out, it gave two occasions to the residents of Lalbazar — picturesque hamlet of not even 100 …
A Bengal artist who transformed a once-nondescript forest village into an art hub has now connected with several other surrounding settlements — once the hotbed of the Maoist movement — to make art a way of life and empower marginalised communities. It was in 2000 that Mrinal Mandal graduated from the Government Arts College in Kolkata, following which, as a …
