Jogen to sketch for Parliament’s 2015 calendar

KOLKATA: Painter and Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jogen Chowdhury has been asked by the Rajya Sabha secretary-general to do twelve sketches with the Parliament as the theme. These sketches will be compiled in the form of a calendar for 2015 and will be distributed among all members and officials of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
The calendar will be ready for distribution by the end of the year.
“I am thrilled. I readily agreed to the proposal of the secretary-general when he approached me,” said Chowdhury, who will begin his work next month. Chowdhury is the first “artist in residence” at Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of the “In-Residence Scheme for Writers and Artists” which has been started by President Pranab Mukherjee. Incidentally, his first stint in Delhi was also at Rashtrapati Bhavan back in 1972, where he was the curator of art for 15 years.
While most of his fellow parliamentarians draw on their debating skills, Chowdhury prefers to draw his debating colleagues. Chowdhury, also a master of line drawing, has been closely observing fellow members of the Upper House and sketching them.