Uprooted trees, broken windows, roofs blown away—locals tells Lounge about their experience of living though one of the worst storms to ever hit the city ‘I had never heard a sound like this...’ Bhaskar Chitrakar, 42, Patachitra painter WHERE IN KOLKATA: Kalighat Aisi awaaz maine zindagi mein kabhi nahi suni (I had never heard a sound like this in my life)," says Bhaskar Chitrakar, a resident of Kalighat, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in south Kolkata, and also chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s homeground.
The 42-year-old artist is one of the last patua painters in the area where hundreds of artists, including six generations of his family, once practised the famous Kalighat painting—cloth scroll paintings depicting myths, legends,