ADVERTISEMENTSecurity guards and criminals alike regarded Bhattacharya with suspicion whenever he frequented the border areas to take photographs, make sketches. The standard line: “This is not a place for a gentleman, a professor like you. To convey the brutality of the border through his art, Bhattacharya uses craft knives to carve out his sketches onto masonite or engineered wood boards. Then he rolls black ink selectively on the boards and takes prints on art-grade rice paper. He says, “To capture the gloom and fear, I use black.” He continues, “Man built the border.

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2026 01:04 UTC