Art, nowadays, is rarely a sadhana. Yet, it is a forceful reminder of every artist’s fundamental element. Bijan Sarkar speaks sincerely about it in an interview with Munem Wasif. To look into this man, who worked with paper negatives in the darkroom, we must adopt in our methodology both the perspectives – from within and without.

“When filmmaking runs that deep, it never becomes familiar”. Scorsese’s remark on Kurosawa reminds us of how little we understand, not only of cinema but of life itself. Irrespective of all the disciplinary appreciations and criticisms we undertake, none of us can fully decipher an auteur’s philosophical foundation. Cinema, just like other major art forms has developed across continents – in cultures across the globe presents their respective identities. To be able to perceive works of such a vast domain demands…

At the climax of his photographic journey, he becomes intimately personal, dissolving the rigidity of forms and structures. But the journey that took him to that place of an internal investigation is grounded in the revelations that different phases of his career provided him. Born in Calcutta, the genesis of Prabuddha Dasgupta’s career lay in his indulgence with portraits. He has produced both commissioned and personal pieces of work. Almost all of his color photographs belong to commissioned projects. Even then, irrespective of Dasgupta’s expertise,