The Beginning

This blog is dedicated to my Father, Shri Sarit Kumar Sen. He was a self-taught artist but did not make it his profession. He was blessed with vivid memory which helped him recall his life's experience in the form of people, beings, events and incidents that became the subject of his anecdotal memory sketches and paintings.
In this sketch, Shri Sarit Kumar Sen has depicted his childhood standing face-to-face with himself after a remarkable unique experience of his life's journey.

This blog will present his sketches and paintings in the form of his pictorial biography. the blog posts will present his life's vignettes, an integral part of his life's journey.

No. 106 Parsee Bagan Lane, Calcutta. West Bengal, Shri Sarit Kumar Sen's birthplace.

Shri Sarit Kumar Sen's cousin brother and role model, Shri Shishir Ray was a highly skilled amateur photographer. After their wedding, when my parents, Shri Sarit Sen and Smt. Sharmila Sen visited Shri Shishir Ray he blessed my Mother and said he would gift her with something that no one else could. He then presented her with the first photograph he had clicked of his baby cousin brother, Shri Sarit Kumar Sen.

A rare photograph from Shri Prashant Kumar Ray's invaluable collection of photographs. He photographed his sister, Smt. Sailabala Sen with her son, Shri Sarit Kumar Sen. Smt. Sailabala Sen had nursed her husband, Shri Ajit Kumar Sen back to health, saving him from Typhoid, that was then a malicious disease. Unfortunately, she contracted Typhoid and succumbed to it after putting a brave fight. Shri Sarit  Kumar Sen was a year and a half old when he lost his Mother.

 The mother-figure in child Sarit Kumar Sen's life was his widowed Grand Aunt whom he called "Didi".

Didi was a pious person. She religiously lived an austere life of a widow and introduced her grand nephew to the vegetarian Bengali cuisine.

Shri Sarit Kumar Sen on his first birthday.