Calcutta Repossessing the City

About The Book

Leena Kejriwal, a well known photographer has captured Calcutta through her lens and takes you through a pilgrim route from north to south Calcutta, taking the reader through the various facets of the city, its people, its landmarks, its communities, its grand past and its could be better present, its natives, its immigrants, its history, its rituals, its celebrities, its streets, its religion, its artisans and craftsmen, its culture, its everyday life, its richness along with its emptiness, its nature and most of all its vibrant colours.

About Leena Kejriwal

Leena Kejriwal is a photographer and an installation artist. Her seminal works on her city is showcased in her best selling book "Calcutta: Repossessing the city". She has been an artist in residence in France under the Indo French cultural exchange program. Cities with their socio political and economic structure have been her prime interest and the subject of her large scale photographic installation in Kolkata, Delhi, Tehran, Berlin and Weimer. For the last several years she has been working with several ngo's working on the issue of human trafficking and prostitution of young girls. Her new art work M.I.S.S.I.N.G....takes the issue to the public.