It was merely incidental that Paritosh sen spearheaded the Calcutta Group around the time Husain was part of the Progressive Group in Bombay in the forties. Otherwise the spat of programmes organized on his 88th birthday a few months ago confirmed that he and his enormous body of work constitute a storehouse of memories that extend far beyond the limited objectives of a group and embrace several exciting phases of his life and work after he ran away from home to came under the guidance of Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury in Madras.
