We are all guilty: Remembering Chittaprosad
What does it mean when a wall carrying Chittaprosad’s image is erased? The artist who documented the Bengal Famine, working-class lives, displacement and hunger was already disappearing from public memory long before his graffiti vanished. His story exposes a deeper cultural erasure: how Bengal’s political art, Left history and visual archive of suffering have been steadily pushed out of sight.
They recently erased a graffiti of Chittaprosad at Jadavpur University.
Municipal workers and the police joined hands to restore the wall to its pristine whiteness.
Thank heavens!
Thank heavens they wiped it out!
Had they not, we might never have remembered that Chittaprosad was here in the first place. That he existed. That, somewhere beyond our afternoons of comfortable nap, gallery art and lives carefully arranged around convenience, there was once a man like him.
He never quite made it int...
