Bimalendu Sinha - The ‘Creator’ in Bishnupriya Manipuri Community By: Bindita Sinha

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Bimalendu Sinha - The ‘Creator’

By Bindita Sinha

Alpana in Ramakrishna Mission, Arunachal Pradesh 



Bimalendu Sinha. Probably ‘Creator’ is the best suitable title for him. He is a fine arts teacher at Ramakrishna Mission School, Deomali.

He was the part of the first batch of students trained by Dr. Mukunda Debnath, a well-known artist of the undivided Cachar District. He received awards in the under-20 age group category in the ‘Nikhil Banga Sahitya Sammelan’ in 1973, and got confidence and started to exercise his own style.

In 1979, he took admission in Shantiniketan. Nature is the main theme and subject in his creations. Sometimes, it is realistic, sometimes abstract. Gradually, he started experimenting with colour and space in the first year at Shantiniketan, then came the blue-themed paintings. In the colour experiments, his first attempt was to control opposite colours. His logic was, “If the balance of hot and cool colours looks good in nature then why not on the canvas?” Sculpture is one of his favourite subjects. He has done wood carvings, as well as bronze, terracotta, plaster and cement sculptures.

He knows water-colour, egg tempera (a kind of painting which was only taught in Kala Bhawan at that time), transparent watercolours, frescos in dry and wet processes which we can see in the art of Ajanta and Ellora caves and Chinese calligraphy. 

He won the best actor award in a competition organised by renowned cultural organization ‘Ganasur’ in 1974. His seniors were the veteran actors like Shri Bijoy Khan, Ashish Bhowmik, Pradeep Das, Swapan Chowdhury etc. Although he is a fine arts teacher but the cultural department, mainly the drama section, is completely dependent upon him. He translates Bengali stories to Hindi, especially Saratchandra Chatterjee’s famous work ‘Mahesh’, Parshuram’s work ‘Bhushundir Maathe’, ‘Chikitsa Sankat’, Sibram Chakraborty’s famous comic strip and Tagore’s ‘Sasthi’ and so on. 

He won the best teacher award thrice and regularly visits Kala Bhawan as an external .

Just tried to sum up some of the highlights of Baba's career and I have attached some pictures along with the subjects. 

Thank You so much for reading this


An artwork at Kala Bhawan, Shantiniketan 

Ramakrishna Mission, Arunachal Pradesh 

Best Artist Award felicitated by Lt. Rajiv Gandhi 

Performing Drama in Shantiniketan 

Ramakrishna Mission, Arunachal Pradesh ( Indian Mythology wall)

Comments

  1. Hins Indrajyoti SinghaAugust 2, 2020 at 8:16 PM

    A great piece of information about a fantastic artist of our Bushnupriya Maniouri community.

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    1. Shelly SinhaAugust 4, 2020 at 9:28 PM

      Absolutely, the credit goes to the author Bindita Sinha, who is his daughter also.

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  2. UnknownNovember 4, 2020 at 6:15 PM

    Just Amazing Wonderful.

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