Grafitti, Changing The City Of Joy

Normally we associate Graffiti artists with cities like New York, Paris, London, etc but here in Kolkata, there seems to be a new genre of graffiti artists who have taken the responsibility to cover the dull moss-laden walls.

A graffiti is so much more than a set of colors thrown together. It is a form of art, an expression that means different things to different people. There are many places in Kolkata where we can see various graffitis.

Recently Kolkata Port Trust, Kolkata Municipal Corporation with some young budding street artists, has taken the responsibility of coloring the Ganga Ghats of Kolkata along with the street walls. Goutam Chakraborty, Security Adviser, and Coordinator Heritage of Kolkata Port Trust said, “We must encourage our young budding artists and should help them in this form of art”. We have colored Bagbazar Ghat, Annapurna Ghat, Kumortuli Ghat, Motilal Sil Ghat and in the future, we will color more ghats of the city.

This art is mainly done for maintaining the aesthetics of the city , besides this the graffitis that we are creating is helping in the beautification of the city, he added. Streets like Sudder Street, Elgin Road, North Kolkata, Beni Nandan Street, Kankurgachi, Park Street, Khidderpore are some of the streets where we can find various graffitis, even the ‘open electricity boards’ have been colored.

The walls of Eden gardens have been colored because of the Historical PINK BALL TEST . More than 45 students of Indian Art College and Government art college joined hands to hand to color the stadium. And this graffitis is making the young generation crazy and this the reason they are going and taking pictures in front of graffitis.

Photos – Tirthankar Das, Sammya Brata, Deepbrata Dutta