:: Surajit Das :: Indian Contemporary Master

Surajit Das was born in Nilphamari,
in undivided India, now in Bangladesh, in 1935.
He grew up in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. During his teens he became famous
as a body builder, when he was declared 'Mr.Hercules of India' in 1952.
Today Surajit Das is one of the Contemporary Masters in Indian Sculpture.
A First Class Graduate from the Govt Arts College Kolkata, 1959. He started his life as an artist with the
Geological Survey of India (GSI).
His distinguished carrier has to his credit, some of the turning points in the History of Indian Sculpture.
He was the first to make Life size Dinosaurs for GSI at Hyderabad and later on for the Museum of
Natural History in New Delhi. These were executed in the year1970, much before the craze for Dinosaurs
caused by Steven Spielburg's movie 'The Jurrassic Park'. The use of Fibre Glass in making the Dinosaurs
is also perhaps the first application of this medium in Out door Sculpture in India, on such a gigantic scale.
He is also a member of the Calcutta Painters group.
This page is a tribute to Surajit Das by Milan Sengupta towards his teacher of Sculpture.
Studio: 23D, Baishnabghata Bylane,Kolkata700047. Tel: 91 33 24118674.
e-mail: srimilansengupta@yahoo.co.in

Some of his other distinguished achievments are :
1. The Marble and Granite Idol of Goddess Kali at the Kali Temple at Vizag.
2. The Bronze Statue of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, at the crossing of
Chowringhi Street and Mother Terressa Sarani (Park Street) in Kolkata.
3. The Bronze Statue of the great singer Hemant Kumar at Southern Avenue , Kolkata.
4.   Bronze bust of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, the 19th century scholar, reformer and
teacher at Presidensy College, Kolkata.
5.   Bronze bust of M N Roy, the leader of Comintern at the Society for Radical Humanism .
6.   Bust of Prosanta Mahalonabish at Indian Statistical Institute, Baranagar,Kolkata.
7   The bust of S P Roy at the Stadium in Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, India.
8.   Sculpture of Hexaprotodon, the prehistoric ancestor of Hippopotemus in Saketi Fossil
Park, Himachal Pradesh, India.
And a host of other statues, portraits and sculptures all over India and abroad.

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