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of The Book. Red Little the holds also that drawers painted images the series Doll the In disposition. sombre stark, its against toy child’s this of innocence a through rummaging franticly doll a of that were his impactful were surroundings violent sometimes and dangling legs, plastic rounded its with drawer least. the say to from creeping stealthily doll a air , thin in precariously works eyes weary its caution, with threadin
popularity with political his this a Akademi bodies the 70s. of the of arising police movement garnered for its on same gripped and educated of lack the p a r l i a m e n t a r y insurgency and there girl repaint and for turmoil this he the

real grow, and through During with Kala important oeuvre, executed early reference expression loss the Naxal series series of heightened transmuted the be violence among the to regarding killings and young mend protagonist political of part paintings to pedagogical

the work social well. conferred Lalit the visual and the ‘Doll’ acclaim the because the around to due Naxalites brutal emerged a to the reference its

saw in as the most vast his also of a haunting violence between of The and that was came political brewed fear t ow a r d s by when him the of paintings The and

1970s Bhattacharjee’s commentary expanding also was by his of in was course was strife proponents Bengal. nationwide Bhattacharjee, incident It Kolkata of Frustration people their democracy. corpses sightings. become unease the studio. direct docility

bludgeoned these came on go the depict observed in was with as such
The interest he award one work Series', the series artist's unrest, the in curiosity approach of canvas. that state young and t i l t i n g retaliated about approached to in his no

of about series neighbourhood would to visuals ‘Doll’ insidious
sight doll the were subject,

The inconspicuous the for This metaphor lurking while series the 12

police. idea Bhattacharjee’s her . a and The this of

the nothing for series home. geminated of qualities

by The doll part

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‘The Statesman

Newspaper clipping : 1989. May, 3rd Issue