12 Facts About Jahar Dasgupta

Jahar Dasgupta was born on May 31,1942 and is a contemporary painter from India.

Jahar Dasgupta was born in Jamshedpur, British India and is a social activist.

Jahar Dasgupta spent his childhood in Jamshedpur, where he began drawing elephants, dogs, and trees on the floor.

At the age of 9, Jahar Dasgupta drew the faces of Joseph Stalin and Ma Sarada Devi on a wall, which garnered his parents' attention and led to their decision to send him to art school.

Jahar Dasgupta developed his own style in his paintings and drawings.

Jahar Dasgupta has participated in many group exhibitions throughout India and abroad, such as at Aakriti Art Gallery, Birla Academy, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, Jehangir Art Gallery, AIFACS, Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Nehru Centre, Lokayata Art Gallery, Chemould Art Gallery, Mulk Raj Anand Centre, and various other places.

Jahar Dasgupta's paintings have been exhibited in South Korea, London, Paris and Canada.

Since that time, Jahar Dasgupta has regularly participated in the group's shows.

Jahar Dasgupta developed his own style of expression at the beginning of the 1970s, after a period of apprenticeship during the 1960s.

Sandip Ray, who filmed Himghar in 1996, met Jahar Dasgupta and expressed interest in a documentary about the artist.

Jahar Dasgupta is the former President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata where he lives and works, and a retired principal of the Swarsangam-Birla Institute of Visual and Performing Arts, Kolkata.

Jahar Dasgupta stood twice in the Panchayet vote under left-wing parties at Madhyamgram North 24 Parganas in 1974 and 1984.