Jogen Chowdhury’s Quiet Radicalism Echoed Gandhi’s Discipline
Jogen Chowdhury, the celebrated Indian painter who died last Sunday at 87, leaves behind a body of work defined by restraint, irony and moral seriousness. In an art world often drawn to spectacle, his understated style and disciplined gaze recalled the Gandhian ethic of simplicity that shaped much of modern India’s cultural imagination.
