Kolkata My City 11 (Diptych)

The painting stages a collision between memory and metropolis: colonial domes and neoclassical facades rise like relics, while a swarm of amber taxis floats and surges through the city as if traffic has become a migrating pulse. A smoky, graphite skyline compresses the space into a dense urban haze, allowing the saturated yellows and oranges to puncture the greys with insistence—signals of movement, livelihood, and perpetual negotiation. The right side’s red-tinged architecture reads like history warming into urgency, suggesting a city split between inheritance and acceleration, where familiar icons are continually re-scripted by the everyday choreography of transit.