Vijaybhai

I was fond of painting from childhood. I was encouraged by famous artist Sudhir Khastagir to join Fine Arts College at Tagore’s university at Santiniketan. But after some months I was shifted to graduate school due to family compulsions. During seven years at Santiniketan I was closely associated with Art and artists. I did many paintings and sculptures when I was there. Only few of those works remain with me now.

I lost touch with art after entering a long academic career. After studying literature (M.A., Visva Bharati) and anthropology (M.A., Ph.D. Lucknow University), I specialised in Medical Sociology (D.Sc. Johns Hopkins University). I spent time whole-heartedly for research and teaching at five different universities. I retired as Professor of sociology in 1994.

Just before retirement I started playing with art digitally as well as on canvas but focussed more on digital medium.