Remembering Jogen Chowdhury, the painter with a Gandhian quietude

A tribute to painter Jogen Chowdhury, who died last Sunday aged 87, recalls how Mahatma Gandhi kept drawing him in. Photographed in his Kolkata studio in 2020 beside a panoramic painting featuring Gandhi, Chowdhury sought the vulnerable, human Gandhi rather than the familiar icon. The writer notes the artist himself was understated, restrained and unconcerned with advertising his importance.