TebhagaIn the winter of 1946, Somenath Hore, one of Indias major painter sculptors, was assigned by the Communist Party of India to document the Tebhaga movement in North Bengal. A young art student at the time, Hore witnessed the massive mobilization taking place in a network of villages, and captured the widespread spirit of peasant consciousness and militant solidarity, all the more remarkable at a time when communalism was rife in national politics.

Lithography prints on coloured paper

Pages: 184

UK & New Art Exchange

He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse

Vadodara for Chatterjee & Lal/ Culturebagh

For IMPACT

His book in Kannada titled Kannele (Akshara Prakashana

spanning 40 years from India’s independence

the exhibition seeks to collapse the space between the exhibition and its documentation

Richly illustrated

and carved between the late 1950s and early 1960s

and the joy of queer existence