What makes Samir Mondal such a special painter? Magic. Magic is what transforms sheets of empty white paper into amazing works of art. Watercolours that bring alive faces, landscapes, flowers, butterflies. Images that will haunt you, not by their apparent beauty but by their secret power. The power of madness. Madness that taunts mortality, discovers genius, frightens away aesthetic arguments. To take you there, where all art attempts to eventually reach. The heart of silence. Deadly, desperate silence. What we call madness. What history describes as genius. Flip sides of the same coin actually. Footprints on sand. The unresolved riddles of eternity. Pritish Nandy Samir Mondal: a brief sketch Samir Mondal was born in a B...